LONDON—"Walter Sickert was a truly great printmaker. He had that gift of combining original subject with technical virtuosity," says Gordon Cooke, an executive director of London’s Fine Art Society. Cooke has organized an exhibition at the New Bond Street gallery, on view from March 4 through 27, that gathers several of the best-known works of the artist (1860-1942), generally acknowledged as the father of modern British art. Among the featured etchings, some depicting music-hall denizens and drab domestic scenes, are such iconic images as Ennui and Jack Ashore, which portrays a nude prostitute with her clothed patron, a recurring subject for Sickert. A concurrent show of his Venetian pictures is at the Dulwich Picture Gallery through May 31.

"Shades of Sickert" originally appeared in the March 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's March 2009 Table of Contents.