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The Camden Town Murder is a title given to a group of four paintings by Walter Sickert painted in 1908. The paintings have specific titles, such as the problem picture What Shall We Do for the Rent or What Shall We Do to Pay the Rent.[1][2][better source needed][dead link]

Walter Sickert, The Camden Town Murder, originally titled, What Shall We Do for the Rent?, alternatively, What Shall We Do to Pay the Rent
Walter Sickert, The Camden Town Murder, originally titled, What Shall We Do for the Rent?, alternatively, What Shall We Do to Pay the Rent

The title of the group refers to the Camden Town Murder case of 1907.[3] On 11 September Emily Dimmock, a part-time prostitute cheating on her partner, was murdered in her home at Agar Grove (then St Paul's Road), Camden, having gone there from The Eagle public house, Royal College Street. After sex, the man had cut her throat while she was asleep, then left in the morning.[1] The murder became a source of prurient sensationalism in the press.[1] For several years Sickert had been painting lugubrious female nudes on beds, and continued to do so, challenging the conventional approach to life painting—"The modern flood of representations of vacuous images dignified by the name of 'the nude' represents an artistic and intellectual bankruptcy"—giving four of them, which included a male figure, the title, The Camden Town Murder, and causing a controversy which ensured attention for his work.[1][better source needed]

The paintings do not show violence, but a sad thoughtfulness, explained by the fact that three of them were originally exhibited with completely different titles, one more appropriately being What Shall We Do for the Rent?, and the first in the series, Summer Afternoon.

Sickert's treatment of the murder can be connected with his obsession with the serial killer Jack the Ripper, who murdered five prostitutes in London 20 years earlier. Patricia Cornwell argued that Sickert himself was the Ripper, though this theory is not taken seriously by most experts, in part because Sickert was probably in France when the murders took place.[3][4][5]

Sickert's earlier depiction of Jack the Ripper's Bedroom, which he believed he had lodged in
Sickert's earlier depiction of Jack the Ripper's Bedroom, which he believed he had lodged in

References


  1. Januszczak, Waldemar. "Walter Sickert – murderous monster or sly self-promoter?" The Times, 4 November 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2008.
  2. "The Camden Town Murder", Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection. Retrieved 13 September 2008.
  3. Wendy Baron, Sickert: paintings and drawings, Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11129-0, p. 73
  4. Ryder, Stephen P. "Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert: A Primer". Casebook: Jack the Ripper. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
  5. Sturgis, Matthew (3 November 2002). "Making a killing from the Ripper". The Sunday Times

Further reading





На других языках

- [en] The Camden Town Murder

[ru] Убийство в Кэмден-Тауне

«Убийство в Кэмден-Тауне» (англ. «The Camden Town Murder») — цикл картин британского художника Уолтера Ричарда Сикерта, созданный им в 1907—1909 годах. Существуют три разных картины, безусловно соотносимые искусствоведами с данным циклом. Одна из них присутствует в двух различных вариантах, каждый из которых обычно считается самостоятельной картиной: «Летний день, или Где нам взять деньги на оплату жилья?» (1908—1909, англ. «Summer Afternoon, or What shall we do for the Rent?», полотно также известно под названием «Серия „Убийство в Кэмден-Тауне“, № 2», англ. «The Camden Town Murder Series No. 2»), существует обрезанная версия этой картины, находящаяся в частной коллекции (1908—1909, это полотно известно также под названием «Серия „Убийство в Кэмден-Тауне“, № 1», англ. «The Camden Town Murder Series No. 1»). Также к серии искусствоведы относят полотна Уолтера Сикерта «Убийство в Кэмден-Тауне, или Что нам делать, чтобы оплатить аренду жилья?» (англ. «The Camden Town Murder, or What shall we do for the Rent?», около 1908 года) и «Кэмден-таунское дело» (англ. «L’Affaire de Camden Town», 1909).mw-parser-output .ts-Переход img{margin-left:.285714em}.


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