Saturday, April 12, 2014

John Craxton - Fitzwilliam, Cambridge 12/4/14

Cf Picasso - Antibes period
Chagall
Aitchison
Nash
Piper

Blake
Palmer
Miro, Leger

Eg
Pastoral for PW 48

Red and Yellow LS 45
Modern palette
50s graphic style

Friend of L Freud
Knew Julian Trevelyan
Horizon
Peter Watson
Knew Sutherland
Born 22
Friend of Patrick Leigh fermor
Collected by peter pears

Cart Track 42/3
SciFi
Luminous
De Chirico

Deeply Greek/Mediterranean

Dark LS: Hydra 60/61
Highly graphical cf Hepworth, Nicholson; St Ives

Margot Fonteyn and John Craxton in Greece, 1951

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