'The Studio,' (1906) is among Walter Sickert’s most accomplished figure paintings. The scene is a mirror image, containing within itself a second mirror image, and further deconstruction reveals that the surface of the painting is a disguised looking mirror the painter is facing.

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Walter Sickert’s “Mornington Crescent Nude” (1907)

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Walter Sickert’s “Miss Earhart’s Arrival” (1932)

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I love the surrounding art. ‘scandalous’ portrait of Mme. Gautreau, he had to change the strap & the name to Mme X. Did Ripper painting mean he was the serial killer? One of my favs continues to defy interpretation, La Tempesta

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- hesitant; indecisive or havering. In Scots to ‘haver’ means ‘to talk foolishly’ (see The Proclaimers ‘500 miles’). paintings of the Camden Town Murders of 1907, are seen as evidence that he was Jack the Ripper or is just havering?

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