
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
With The Leicester Galleries, London, where acquired by
Eric Alport, Esq.
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Paintings and Drawings by John Craxton, May-June 1944, cat.no.15
Estuary Landscape relates directly to an oil of the same year, Tree Root in an Estuary, and a number of further studies on paper of the same subject. These works were completed during and after Craxton visited Pembrokeshire on a working trip in 1943 with fellow artist Graham Sutherland.
This work and related compositions were included in Craxton's first one man show at the Leicester Galleries in 1944.
We are grateful to Ian Collins for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.