An unsettling painting by a Victorian artist who some experts believe was notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper has sold for £14,000.
Walter Sickert’s ‘Figures in the Rain’ went for more than double its upper sale estimate of £6,000 at an Oxford auction house on Wednesday.
The creepy artwork shows figures walking along a street whilst shielding themselves from the rain with umbrellas – and appears to be from the perspective of someone lurking in the shadows.
Sickert, who died
FOR CENTURIES, THE first thing that residents of the Mexican village of Nurio saw when they walked through the heavy wooden doors of their adobe-plastered church was an orchestra of angels. Painted on pine panels mounted in an arch beneath the choir, the images were likely completed in the mid-1600s, less than 150 years after the first Franciscan missionaries arrived here in the Meseta Purépecha, or Tarascan Plateau, a highland region in the Michoacán state named for the Indigenous community
