Maple Street, London, Walter Richard Sickert, ca. 1915–23

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Maple Street, London, ca. 1915–23, Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 × 20 1/8 in. ( × cm), Paintings, Walter Richard Sickert (British, Munich 1860–1942 Bathampton, Somerset), This desolate urban view is a rare night scene by Sickert. It depicts an intersection near studios the artist rented from 1915 onward. About 1923, he repeated the composition in two prints, for one of which he borrowed the title of the popular song O Sole Mio, a humorous allusion to its illumination by streetlamp

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Size: 3717px × 5642px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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