Walter Sickert by Matthew Sturgis

Walter Sickert by Matthew Sturgis

The first major life of the outstanding British painter and Jack the Ripper suspect Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biographer of Aubrey Beardsley.

‘[Sturgis] clearly has a profound sense of the paradoxes underlying the man and his workMeticulous, heartfelt and thoroughly convincing.’ Times Literary Supplement

‘A truly comprehensive, grandsweep biography. Detailed, amusing and moving. Brilliantly done, an outstanding achievement. At last Sickert has the biography he deserves." Spectator

‘Excellent and authoritative, Sturgis's scholarship is exemplary.’ Guardian

‘A fine biography.’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

‘A biography that is as sure in its chronicling of artistic movements and trends as in its acute attention to the life of its subject.’ Financial Times

‘Magisterial, taut and fresh, it is a measure of how impressive Sickert's life, career and influence is that it feels more apt to argue that the artist has been fortunate in his biographer.’ Independent

Matthew Sturgis is a freelance writer and critic who has written art criticism for Harpers & Queen, travel pieces for the Sunday Telegraph and football reports for the Independent on Sunday. He is the author of Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s, praised by David Profumo in the Literary Review as ‘deft and intriguing’ and by Waldemar Januszczak in the Sunday Times as ‘compelling and racy’, and the highly-praised Aubrey Beardsley. He is married to the gallery owner Rebecca Hossack, and lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780007205271
ISBN 10	0007205279
Title	Walter Sickert
Author	Matthew Sturgis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2005-10-03
Number of pages	784
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