Waterpot in a window (1947)

John Leith Craxton

pencil and gouache on paper

Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, London

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Gouache, Pencil, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Pencil and gouache drawing depicting a vase with plant by a window using blue, black and greys.

Dimensions:

23 x 18 cm

Accession Number:

CIRC.291-1959

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1959

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from The London Gallery by Robin Ironside (1912-1965) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1949; presented to Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, 1959

Relationship:

Robin Ironside The London Gallery, London Victoria & Albert Museum, Prints, Drawings and Paintings Collection, London

Subject:

Still Life, Windows

John Craxton, having had his first important solo exhibition in 1944 at the Leicester Galleries in London, was invited to go to Greece in 1946 by Peter Norton [Lady Norton]. She had championed him at The London Gallery, which she had established in 1936, and from where this picture was purchased for the Contemporary Art Society in 1949. Craxton shared a house in Poros for a short time with his friend the painter Lucian Freud (1922–2011), where it is possible this cubist-style still-life was executed.

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