ABSTRACT
Sickert (1860–1942) had worked with Degas in Paris in 1883 and after a period of painting in Dieppe between 1900 and 1905 founded the Fitzroy Street Group which later formed the nucleus of the Camden Town School. He had long been familiar with French painting of the nineteenth century, and viewed Fry’s championship of Post-Impressionism as a form of opportunism. For Sickert the differences between the artists who made up the so-called Post-Impressionist movement were more significant than their similarities. This article is the text of a lecture which Sickert gave in the Grafton Galleries just before the exhibition closed in January.
