Adonis or A Night that Never Ends

Details

Peter Howson (b. 1958)
Adonis or A Night that Never Ends
signed 'HOWSON' (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Painted in 1996.

Provenance

with Flowers East Gallery, London.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present work is a study for a series produced by Howson based on Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress. Charting the story of Tom Rake who chooses wealth over love, A Night that Never Ends is the seventh and last in the series which plots the debauchery and ultimate downfall of the central character.

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