Virginia Woolf and Walter Sickert, writing against painting

Published in 1934 by the Hogarth Press, an essay links Virginia Woolf to Walter Richard Sickert, whom she, in her diary, calls “my Sickert” (see annotations of Tuesday April 17, 1934) complaining that, with the painter she loves, critics “are contemptuous” (Friday 2 November 1934).

Reflecting on Mario Praz’s statement that: “Woolf’s technique could approach that of pointillisme”, we think that it is composed of “a plurality of isolated moments, “randomly put together by the imagination” (again Mario Praz) therefore a sort of…