Fish and Chips

Details

Beryl Cook (1926-2008)
Fish and Chips
signed 'B Cook' (lower right) and inscribed 'Fish and Chips' (on the reverse)
oil on board
25½ x 15½ in. (64.7 x 39.4 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by the present owner from the 1978 exhibition.

Literature

B. Cook, Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, London, 2001, p. 62, illustrated.

Exhibited

Bristol, Alexander Gallery, Beryl Cook, August 1978, catalogue not traced.

Special notice

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.

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Lot Essay

'It seems I spend rather a lot of time with food- buying, eating and painting it ... I like to think I so often paint food because of the colours, but could it be the greed?' (Exhibition catalogue, Beryl Cook: Private View, Gallery Five, London, 1980, unpaginated).

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