Sickert, Walter - Portrait of Victor Lecour - art postcard

• Art Postcard

   

• Work of art title: Portrait of Victor Lecour, dated 1924
• Artist (if known): Walter Sickert 1860-1942
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: City of Manchester Art Galleries
• Postally used:  no - has written message
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: Modern
• Notes & condition details: has a few marks affecting the back only. Bumped corner.

NOTES:

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Stock No.: A56

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-born English Impressionist painter and a member of the Camden Town Group. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his subjects, but whose oeuvre also included portraits of well known personalities and friends, as well as images derived from press photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to modernism, and an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century.

Sickert was born in Munich, in Bavaria. His father, Oswald Sickert, was a Danish-German artist^[1] and his mother Eleanor Louisa Henry was the illegitimate daughter of the English astronomer Richard Sheepshanks. The family left Munich to settle in England at the time of the Great Exhibition, Oswald's work having been recommended by Freiherrin Rebecca von Kreusser to Ralph Nicholson Wornum, who was Keeper of the National Gallery at the time.^[2] The young Sickert was sent to University College School from 1870-1871 before transferring to King's College School, Wimbledon, where he studied until the age of 18. Though he was the son and grandson of painters, he at first sought a career as an actor; he appeared in small parts in Sir Henry Irving's company, before taking up the study of art as assistant to James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He later went to Paris and met Edgar Degas, whose use of pictorial space and emphasis on drawing would have a powerful effect on Sickert's own work.