Lightning (1987)

Ken Kiff

charcoal with coloured chalks, touched with white

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Conté, Charcoal, Paper, Coloured chalks

Physical Object Description:

"Lightning"; male figure looking out of window at lightning, a semi-nude female figure wearing a skirt beneath a tree at left, a fox or wolf and griffin rampant in the right foreground. 1987 Charcoal with coloured chalks, touched with white; framed. Attached to reverse of frame are Contemporary Art Society and Fischer Fine Art Ltd labels.

Dimensions:

55.9 x 76.2 cm

Accession Number:

1989,0128.107

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1988

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Fischer Fine Art by Caryl Hubbard (1933-2021) for the Contemporary Art Society, October 1987; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1988

Relationship:

Caryl Whineray Hubbard Fischer Fine Art, London Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Man, Windows, Weather, Lightning

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