Exhibition – The dark genius that’s Walter Sickert

London’s biggest retrospective of the works of Walter Sickert in nearly 30 years opens at the Tate Britain and offers a dark journey into the mind of an influential, but an undeniably troubled artist.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) took a radically modern approach to painting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, transforming how everyday life was captured on canvas, but his work was also to lead to later allegations of links with Jack the Ripper.
The exhibition opens with an almost conve