Walter Sickert review – a master of menace
Rented rooms, sickly streets and gaslit pubs... this superbly curated show explores a British artist who specialised in suppressed malevolence
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In praise of shadows: artists inspired by darkness | Christie's
In the painting Salvator Mundi, circa 1500, Leonardo depicts Christ as a supernatural apparition, an ethereal form surrounded by a smoky darkness where God is thought to exist. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669) By the 17th century, many artists had begun to use darkness as a way of conveying the mysteries of religion. An artist with an intense preoccupation with the night was Rembrandt, whose paintings often appear overwhelmed by shadows. The Star of the Kings: A Night Piece, c. 1652. Etching with touches of drypoint, on laid paper. Plate 94 x 142 mm. Sheet 95 x 143 mm. Sold for £68...
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