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The Poets Eye XVI, 1944
By John Craxton
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20.3cm
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13cm
SKU: JXC-pe-16-u
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John Craxton (1922-2009) was championed from the age of 19 as one of the great hopes of modern painting in Britain.
He and Lucian Freud worked in adjoining London studios for much of the war, when Craxton was mentored by Graham Sutherland and John Piper. His 1944 lithographic decorations for the Geoffrey Grigson anthology Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poet’s Eye were beautiful innovations.
Craxton escaped in 1946 to Greece, where he found creative inspiration for the rest of his life. The dark, melancholic images of the war years – with haunted solitary figures emblematic portraits of the artist himself – vanished as he became absorbed in the light, life and landscapes of the Aegean.
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Designed, printed and published in 1944 to illustrate poems chosen by Geoffrey Grigson.
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