London, Osborne Samuel, John Craxton: Works on Paper, Linocuts & Prints, 17 May – 11 June 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Dreams and Nightmares, 22 May – 15 July 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January 2017 – 9 March 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 2 April – 18 July 2018;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
The young John Craxton depicts himself in this drawing, created whilst living in Pembrokeshire but yearning for the Mediterranean. The over-large-footed-and-handed figure shows the influence of Picasso whose newly completed Guernica he had seen at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937.
