Walter Sickert: a conversation by Virginia Woolf

Published by The Bloomsbury Workshop 1992

ISBN: 9780951681312

Condition: Good

Description:

Softcover. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Cover illustration by Vanessa Bell.
Size:8vo.14.5x21xm; pp28. 

Unusual example of Virginia Woolf’s art criticism. Essay on British painter, Walter Sickert, taking the form of a dinnertime conversation between seven or eight friends, similar to certain scenes in her novels (To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years). The characters debate pure painting and literary painting. Introduction by art historian Richard Shone. 4 b/w illustrations of Sickert’s work. First published by The Hogarth Press in 1934. 

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