Camel in Lava Field, Lanzarote

Details

John Craxton, R.A. (b. 1922)
Camel in Lava Field, Lanzarote
signed 'Craxton' (lower left)
acrylic, tempera and lava dust on board
10½ x 20¼ in. (26.6 x 51.4 cm.)
Painted in 1973.

Provenance

with Christopher Hull Gallery, London, where purchased by Mary Symons, 1982.

Exhibited

London, Fulham Fine Art, Christopher Hull Gallery, John Craxton, May - June 1982, no. 241.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Self-imposed exile from Crete during the dictatorship of the Greek Colonels led Craxton to visit Morocco and Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, where he found the farmed volcanic landscape unimaginably strange and striking. He was inspired to make a number of works, sometimes - as in the present work - using black lava dust as an added pigment.

We are grateful to Ian Collins, currently working on a John Craxton monograph, for his help in compiling the catalogue entries for lots 4 and 5. Anyone with information or images for the book can contact the author c/o Christie's, 8 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QT.

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