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 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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The acting manager (aka The rehearsal) (1885)
One of the very first mirrors by Sickert

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Edward Degas and Walter Sickert, c. 1885

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

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

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

11. St Mark Square, Venice (1896) Interior of St Mark's, Venice (1896)
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Walter Sickert in Venice

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San Trovaso, Venice (1904)
Venice period in Courtauld

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La Giuseppina against the map of Venice (1898) Study in rose (1903)
Sickert’s Venetian Women

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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

16. La Hollandaise (1905): Upper register
(with the mirror)
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La Hollandaise (1905): Bottom register

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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
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Reclining nude, Mornington Crescent (1905)
Famous oval
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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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The Prussians in Belgium (1912) Detail

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

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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)

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