Figure in a Tree

细节

John Craxton, R.A. (1922-2009)
Figure in a Tree
oil on canvas
15¾ x 19¾ in. (40 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted in 1943.

来源

Christopher Hull.
Purchased by Sir Simon Hornby in 1991 from the Christopher Hull Gallery, London, and by descent.

出版

Exhibition catalogue, A Paradise Lost, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1987, p. 138, no. 85.

展览

London, Barbican Art Gallery, A Paradise Lost, May - July 1987, no. 85.

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拍品专文

Throughout the war John Craxton drew and painted menaced landscapes containing solitary figures (shepherds, poets, dancers, dreamers) which were emblematic images of the artist himself. This self-portrait dates from 1943, when Craxton worked in Dorset and also in Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland. It relates closely to a painting owned by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, in which the watchful figure is sheltering in a cave rather than a tree.

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