Walter Sickert, Mornington Crescent Nude, c. 1907, Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 50.8 cm. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. © Estate of Walter R. Sickert/DACS 2007

LONDON.-The paintings of the female nude produced by Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in and around Camden Town between 1905 and 1912 are among the artist’s most significant contributions to 20th century British art. Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes take place at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, Somerset House, London WC2, through 20 January 2008, and brings together a selection of over twenty-five of his finest canvases and related drawings from public and private collections to provide the first major account of his reinvention of the nude as a subject for modern painting. It is the first of three exhibitions which celebrate the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th anniversary.
The exhibition will explore the ways in which Sickert developed an uncompromisingly realist approach to the nude in order to address major social and artistic concerns of the early 20th century. His four famously enigmatic Camden Town Murder paintings will be brought together for the first time as the most powerful expression of his fascination with the darker aspects of urban life in Edwardian London.
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Walter Sickert, Seated Nude, 1906, Oil on canvas, 45 x 37.5 cm. Private collection. © Estate of Walter R. Sickert/DACS 2007