John Craxton, R.A. (1922-2009)
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John Craxton, R.A. (1922-2009)

Blue Tree Root in Welsh Estuary (Picton)

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John Craxton, R.A. (1922-2009)
Blue Tree Root in Welsh Estuary (Picton)
signed and dated '-Craxton-43-' (lower right)
gouache and oil on paper laid down on panel
12 5/8 x 20 in. (32.2 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1943.
来源
with Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester, where purchased by the present owner.
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品专文


Craxton made a number of consistently inventive studies of washed-up trees in Welsh estuaries, such as Sandy Haven, when he was staying in Pembrokeshire in 1943 with Graham Sutherland. Often on different coloured papers, some are more like drawings, others — like this one — are taken to a greater degree of finish. All relate to the black and white oil painting Welsh Estuary Foreshore (1943) in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, one of Craxton’s more Miró-esque compositions. Blue Tree Root, on the other hand, has much in common with Sutherland, whose thoughts on landscape painting were an inspiration to Craxton. His lyrical interpretation of Welsh shores and fields also features in the pen drawings and lithographs he made to illustrate The Poets Eye, an anthology chosen by Geoffrey Grigson (1944); from this period dates some of the finest work he did in Great Britain before succumbing to the lure of Greece.

A.L.

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