Scillonian Landscape

Details

John Craxton, R.A. (1922-2009)
Scillonian Landscape
signed and dated 'Craxton 46' (upper right)
oil on canvas
20½ x 26 in. (52 x 66 cm.)

Provenance

Rolf Bürgi, Belp, Switzerland, 1946.

Exhibited

Zurich, Gallerie Gasser, John Craxton, April - May 1946.

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Lot Essay

In the late summer of 1945 John Craxton and Lucian Freud travelled to the Scilly Isles, where Craxton was inspired to produce a series of dazzling dark landscapes of Tresco paying homage to Picasso and Miró. Exhibited in Switzerland in 1946, they were to form a bridge between Craxton’s “Neo-Romantic” war-time work and pending pictures of Greece where love of the modern masters blended with that of archaeology, iconography and Byzantine art in a brightening palette all his own.

We are very grateful to Ian Collins for preparing this catalogue entry.

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