Surreal Tree, Pembrokeshire

Details

John Craxton, R.A. (1922-2009)
Surreal Tree, Pembrokeshire
signed '-Craxton-' (lower left)
pencil and ink on paper
9 7/8 x 8 in. (24.5 x 20 cm.)
Executed in 1943.

Provenance

Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner.

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

This drawing is closely related to the vignettes and ink illustrations Craxton made for Geoffrey Grigson’s anthology The Poet’s Eye (1944), specifically the drawings on pages 9 and 97 of rocks and trees together, and the lithograph between pages 26 and 27. This was just the kind of meeting of word and image that Freer enjoyed, and the pleasure he took in these Craxton purchases is easily imagined.

A.L.

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