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A few slides about Walter Sickert, his art, and specifically about the mirrors he depicted - both in his famous Camden Town Nudes series and elsewhere.

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art  mirrors  art    2014  © © or Scary Mirrors of Walter Sickert

Art Projections,

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This is how we usually see the works by Walter Sickert on the web – small, dark, blurred.

Mornington Crescent nude, contre-jour (1907)

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First-hand expérience in the Courtauld Gallery, London:

They are indeed small. And dark. And blurred – but nevertheless beautiful - in a bizarre way

(and they do have mirrors!)

The iron bedstead (1906) Reclining nude, Mornington Crescent (1905)

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Paintings of Walter Sickert’s father, Oswald Sickert

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One of the very first mirrors by Sickert

The acting manager (aka The rehearsal) (1885)

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Edward Degas and Walter Sickert, c. 1885

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Walter Sickert in London Study of high-steppers (1888)

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Walter Sickert in Dieppe Café des Tribunaux, Dieppe (c.1890)

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Portrait of the artist's first wife, née Ellen Cobden (1888)

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Walter Sickert in Venice

St Mark Square, Venice (1896) Interior of St Mark's, Venice (1896)

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Venice period in Courtauld

San Trovaso, Venice (1904)

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Sickert’s Venetian Women

La Giuseppina against the map of Venice (1898) Study in rose (1903)

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Jacques-Émile Blanche - Portrait of Walter Richard Sickert (1898)

Back to London: Camden Town Studio

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La Hollandaise (1905)

Camden Town Nudes

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La Hollandaise (1905): Upper register (with the mirror)

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The iron bedstead (1906)

Impasto technique

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Mornington Crescent nude, contre-jour (1907)

More Camden Town nudes

Famous oval mirror

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Reclining nude, Mornington Crescent (1905)

Famous oval mirror

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Reclining nude (1906)

Not all of them have mirrors, though.

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Reclining nude (La Coiffure) (1905) Woman washing her hair (1906)

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Woman in front of mirror (1908) Nude in interior (1906)

But many do.

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Nude before a mirror, Fitzroy Street (1906) Painting of a nude (1906)

And very interesting ones!

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Nude in front of a mirror (Annie Crook ?) (c. 1907)

Nude sitting on a bed (Annie Crook ?) (c. 1907)

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The studio (1906) The studio (1906) - Detail

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Nude at Morning Crescent (1906)

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Book cover of the 2007 edition

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Self-portrait. The painter in his studio (1907)

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Mysterious and brutal murder at Camden Town in 1907

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Summer Afternoon (aka What Shall We Do for the Rent?) (1907)

L'Affaire de Camden Town (1909)

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Down Camden Town (1909) Detail

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Detail The Prussians in Belgium (1912)

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Sickert’s Venn Diagram

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Is he?

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Jack The Ripper Room (1907)

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Walter Sickert in a chef’s hat in his Highbury Place studio

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l'Americane (1908) Girl at a looking glass (Little Rachel) (1907)

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Detail - do we see three mirrors here? The Mantelpiece (1908)

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The Little Tea Party - Nina Hamnett & Roald Kristian (1916)

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Queen's Road Station, Bayswater (1916)

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Mrs Barrett (1922)

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The Blue Hat (1920)

Detail (Mirror)

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Sketch for 'L'Armoire à glace' (1922) 'L'Armoire à glace' (1924) Drawing study for 'L'Armoire à glace' (1922)

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Sir Alec Martin (1935)

Detail (Mirror)

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Walter Richard Sickert and Thérèse Lessore, his third wife, c.1935

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Jacques-Emile Blanche - Portrait of Walter Richard Sickert (1935)

Henry Tonks - Sodales. Mr Steer and Mr Sickert (1930)

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Walter Richard Sickert - Winston Churchill (1933)

Winston Churchill paints

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The End.