Brilliant and Unpredictable

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Yet this is somehow rather a safe and obvious selection. To do real justice to such an experimental artist the choice should have been more daring. Certainly more music-hall scenes (what about the high-stepping Plaza Tiller Girls from c.1938, and a couple of the earlier revolutionary theatre interiors?) and fewer 'murdered' nudes.

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Brilliant and Unpredictable

Exhibitions 1

Brilliant and unpredictable

Walter Richard Sickert: The Human Canvas

Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, until 30 October

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), known as Walter up to 1924 and Richard thereafter, was an artist of genius - a superb draughtsman and printmaker, and a painter continually able to re-invent himself: his was a truly protean personalit...

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