Beggar No. 3

Details

Frank Bowling, R.A. (b. 1934)
Beggar No. 3
signed, inscribed and dated 'Frank Bowling/May 17th/1963/BEGGAR NO. 3/OWNED BY:/DAVID METHUEN/CAMPBELL' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
58 x 40 in. (147.3 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by David Methuen Campbell in the 1960s.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

‘Beggar No. 3 features, for the first time, and the only time to my knowledge, a painted image of his mother’s house, rather than the haunting silkscreened images in later paintings like Cover Girl (1966). One of Bowling’s most significant recurrent motifs, an emblematic acknowledgment of T.S. Eliot’s psychologically fraught line: ‘Home is where one starts from.’ It was the house to which Bowling brought the beggar children on the streets of New Amsterdam to be fed by his imperious and charitable mother.’
- Mel Gooding

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