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left in the morning. The murder became a source of prurient sensationalism in the press. 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,
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case of 1907. On 11 September Emily
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