Walter Sickert
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Walter Richard Sickert was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influe
Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1911
Portrait of Sickert in 1884
La Giuseppina, the Ring (1903–1905)
The Basket Shop, Rue St Jean, Dieppe (c. 1911–1912), Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
The Camden Town Murder
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The Camden Town Murder is a title given to a group of four paintings by Walter Sickert painted in 1908. The paintings have specific titles, such as the problem picture What Shall We Do for the Rent or
Walter Sickert
…dignified by the name of 'the nude' represents an artistic and intellectual bankruptcy"—giving four of them, which included a male figure, the title The Camden Town Murder, and causing a controversy which ensured attention for his work. These paintings do not show violence, however, but a sad thoughtfulness, explained by…
Walter Sickert, The Camden Town Murder (1908), originally titled, What Shall We Do for the Rent?, alternatively, What Shall We Do to Pay the Rent
Sickert's earlier depiction of Jack the Ripper's Bedroom, which he believed he had lodged in