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Description: Fifteen pieces from the famous painting series, including all four of the so-called Camden Town Murder paintings.
Phone: 0207848 2777
Website: www.courtauld.ac.uk
Trains: Tube: Covent Garden/Holborn 
Dark: Camden Town Nudes is a grippingly evocative exhibition
You won't find much evidence pointing to Walter Sickert's apparent identity as Jack the Ripper in this exhibition - even though crime writer Patricia Cornwell spent more than £2million in her bid to 'unmask' him as the Whitechapel murderer.
What you will find, however - in common with many other artists and writers of the time - is an artist who was fascinated by violence and the grimy underbelly of low-life urban living. And his Camden Town dwellings certainly provided him with enough material.
In 1907, he became engrossed by the story of the murder of Emily Dimmock, a local prostitute who was killed in her bed that year. This fascination led him to paint The Camden Town Murder series - and this grippingly evocative exhibition brings these four paintings together for the first time.
These, quite literally, dark and murky tableaux each depict a scene in which a naked woman lies in bed, accompanied by a fully clothed man. Faces are averted or obscured by smears of thick paint but are nonetheless too ambiguous to be truly sinister.
Accompanying them are related drawings and paintings of nudes. You won't find any mention of Cornwell or her theories but you will find an artist whose paintings will compel you utterly with their brooding, lonely vision.
Until Jan 20, Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand WC2, daily 10am to 6pm, £5, £4 concs. Tel: 020 7848 2526. Tube: Charing Cross/Temple
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