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Walter Sickert
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(1860-1942) Painter who was the leading spirit of the *Camden Town Group. His own art went through many phases, but always with a preference for a broad brush stroke and a sombre palette. His favourite early subject matter was the interiors of music halls (his first career, in his late teens, had been as an actor). Around the turn of the century he was living abroad and painting exterior scenes (Dieppe and Venice), but by the Camden Town period his speciality was drab interiors, often with a nude model on a bed. His best-known image, from about 1914, is of domestic dreariness – the marital scene, influenced in its composition by Degas, which is known simply as Ennui (there are several versions, of which one is in the Tate).
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