Sickert view of ‘Kikely’ offered at Essex gallery
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) first met Cicely Hey at a public lecture in 1923. The very next day Hey arrived at his studio in Fitzroy Street and continued to sit for Sickert over the next decade.
A striking model, though not in the conventional sense, Hey (or ‘Kikely’ as Sickert nicknamed her)…