signed upper right Bratby, oil on canvas
42 x 60in. (106.7 x 152.4cm.)
Painted circa 1957-8
Provenance
E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York
Exhibited
New York, French and Company, John Bratby, 1958, no.10 (illustrated in colour)
New York, Finch College, John Bratby (not traced)
Lot Essay
This work is one of a group of paintings commissioned by Knightsbridge Films, the producers of the film version of Joyce Cary's novel 'The Horse's Mouth', which starred Sir Alec Guinness