signed, inscribed and dated ‘for Bridget and Bernard/with love/John Craxton 1956’ (lower left)
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Small Fish, 1956
Provenance:
with The Leicester Galleries, London
Exhibition History:
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Animals in Art, 8 January – 16 March 2014;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January 2017 – 9 March 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, Is there still life in Still Life? 15 July – 1 October 2017
Literature:
Ian Collins, Craxton, Lund Humphries, 2011 (illustrated, no. 134, p. 110)
Living close to the water in Greece – and on the harbourside at Hania from 1960 – John Craxton drew and painted local fishermen and occasionally their catches. He loved fish and seafood, and this distinctive member of the gurnard family was further prized for the delicious dinner it would ultimately provide.
