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Walter Sickert, uncompromising artist.
DOR Edward.

Walter Sickert, uncompromising artist.

Spaces and signs
€17,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25851
Format 13.5 x 18
Détails 108 p., illustrated, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9791094176849
Walter Sickert (1860-1942), an English painter still little known in France, was nevertheless a decisive figure in his time and an inspiration to many 20th-century artists, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. A student of Whistler and close to many French artists, including Monet, Bonnard, and especially Degas, Sickert sought to remain outside the fashionable trends. His provocative painting, often with disconcerting themes, closely aligned with the depiction of everyday life, astonishes with its modern framing, its dark and unpredictable tones, and its indefinite forms, which exude a powerful atmosphere that grips and intrigues. Music hall and theater scenes seen from the wings or through the eyes of spectators who have become the subjects of the painting, nudes in disturbing poses, family dramas in squalid interiors: Sickert's works caused a scandal in the England of the time. They continue to surprise today. Walter Sickert resided in France on several occasions, notably in Dieppe, where he painted many of the streets, the famous market, the Saint-Jacques church, the beaches, and landscapes of the hinterland. The book is built around twenty-seven paintings representative of Sickert's art, analyzed and "told." Some are compared with works by other artists (Caillebotte, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso).
Walter Sickert (1860-1942), an English painter still little known in France, was nevertheless a decisive figure in his time and an inspiration to many 20th-century artists, such as Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. A student of Whistler and close to many French artists, including Monet, Bonnard, and especially Degas, Sickert sought to remain outside the fashionable trends. His provocative painting, often with disconcerting themes, closely aligned with the depiction of everyday life, astonishes with its modern framing, its dark and unpredictable tones, and its indefinite forms, which exude a powerful atmosphere that grips and intrigues. Music hall and theater scenes seen from the wings or through the eyes of spectators who have become the subjects of the painting, nudes in disturbing poses, family dramas in squalid interiors: Sickert's works caused a scandal in the England of the time. They continue to surprise today. Walter Sickert resided in France on several occasions, notably in Dieppe, where he painted many of the streets, the famous market, the Saint-Jacques church, the beaches, and landscapes of the hinterland. The book is built around twenty-seven paintings representative of Sickert's art, analyzed and "told." Some are compared with works by other artists (Caillebotte, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso).