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Erisava Staff 3d ago

Maple Street, London by Walter Sickert, 1915

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Maple Street, London

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According to Wikipedia he made a point of painting the shabby corners of the city — back streets, cheap lodgings, music halls — when that wasn't what anyone was buying. He mostly didn't stand out in the road to do it either; the accounts say he worked from small sketches and photographs once he was back indoors.