The Week reviewed SICKERT The Theatre of Life
"Looking at the paintings of Walter Sickert, you feel you almost know the characters who people them: the dressmaker in Portrait of Mrs Barrett (1906) [...]; the elegantly coiffed yet apparently alarmed society lady of Oeuillade (1911); or the wild-eyed, toothy woman in a cloche hat who stares out at us from Chick (c.1914)