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Sir David Attenborough talks to us about artist John Craxton and a Crete connection. Read the full article.
An expat in Crete, Craxton put the pleasures of Mediterranean life first, but still managed to paint graphic works full of vitality. These are joined here by Crackers, a biopic by Tacita Dean
Ερωτευμένος με την Ελλάδα! Αυτό ήταν ο John Craxton και ο τίτλος της έκθεσης έργων του στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη «Μια ελληνική ψυχή» αποτυπώνει ακριβώς την προσωπικότητα ενός ανθρώπου που αγάπησε έναν τόπο, σχεδόν εμμονικά.
Shows in Athens and Istanbul have brought belated recognition for an artist long championed by David Attenborough. But why, 14 years after his death, is London still immune to his talents?
View Musician in Taverna (1954) By Craxton John; Gouache on card; 23 x 18 1/2 in.; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
John Craxton disliked being called a Neo-Romantic artist. It does not describe his entire life's output, but it seems inevitable that when art historians list the painters, writers, film-makers and theatre designers around the Second World War infused with a Neo-Romantic spirit, Craxton's name will remain among them.
The iconic writer Paddy Leigh Fermor and two of his friends in Greece – both artists, one a local man and the other a fellow Brit – are the subject of a fascinating exhibition at the British Museum. Chloe-Jane Good paid a visit.
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Bouzouki Player - John Craxton
View A Freud figure in a Craxton landscape (1944) By Freud Lucian; pen and ink; 8 x 10 in; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
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“Greece,” wrote the painter John Craxton, “was more than everything I had imagined and far more than I had expected.”
James Hyman Gallery artists: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Tony Bevan, Peter Blake, David Bomberg, Raymond Cauchetier, Prunella Clough, John Craxton, Dennis Creffield, Alan Davie, John Deakin, Peter De Francia, Lucian Freud, Terry Frost, Derrick Greaves, Nigel Henderson, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens, David Hockney, Andre Kertesz, R.B....
A selection of printmaker Peter Green's limited edition linocuts and woodcut and stencil relief prints from 1960-1962. Born in 1933, Peter Green was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1958. Green's career stretches from the 1950s where his vast lino prints of the Welsh landscape show the influence of John Craxton, Alan Reynolds and Graham Sutherland.
John John Florence readies for heat 6 round one of the billabong pipe masters
