JOHN CRAXTON, R.A. | Tree Trunk and Ruin

The Artist, by whom gifted to Anne Weinholt, and thence by descent to the present owner

The sheet is laid down on a supportive card. The lower, right and upper edges are unevenly cut. The sheet undulates very slightly in places, largely due to creases in the supportive card. There is some very faint evidence of adhesive on the extreme left hand edge, presumably from the mounting process. The sheet is very slightly faded. There is a tiny spot of rubbing at the left edge. This excepting the work appears to be in very good overall condition. The work is unframed*** Please telephone the department on +44 (0)207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present lot.
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We are grateful to Ian Collins and Richard Riley for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. The present work is one of sixteen original designs by Craxton used to illustrate Visionary Poems And Passages Or The Poet’s Eye, the 1944 anthology edited by Geoffrey Grigson.