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Virginia Woolf on Sickert's Ennui

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This very short video with Professor Dame Hermione Lee explores Viginia Woolf's interpretation of Walter Sickert's painting of Ennui. Woolf wrote an essay 'Walter Sickert: a conversation' on the painting of Ennui by Walter Richard Sickert in 1933. Woolf describes how she imagines the characters in the painting as an old publican, 'with his glass on the table before him and a cigar at his lips.'

Date Published: 01 March 2019
Contributors:
Hermione Lee
In Collection(s): Introducing modernism, Virginia Woolf, Modernism
Keywords:
Virginia Woolf, Walter Sickert, ennui
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Virginia Woolf on Sickert's Ennui by Hermione Lee at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/virginia-woolf-sickerts-ennui. Published on 01 March 2019. Accessed on 08 November 2024.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: Virginia Woolf on Sickert's Ennui (https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Hermione Lee, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).