Watched by accident a review of an english impressionist artist – Walter Sickert – who visiting Brighton after meeting Edgar Degas – also began painting a series of music hall scenes. Brighton perhaps because it is a seaside lady had many music halls and like you will find performing on the streets of Paris – this is a scene of a group of troubadours painted by him from the footlights performing on Brighton beach on a summer evening – facing the Esplanade above.
Walter Sickert continued through his life to paint unusual paintings almost as a social commentary, some quite controversial..
His last painting – ‘Vineyards’ was looking out from Bath towards the vineyards on the hills above Bath. Perhaps the figure walking away in the painting – was the artist himself disappearing into history.
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