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John Bratby
1928-1992
Dominican Singer with Zoot Money & his Big Roll Band
1966
oil on canvas
56 x 32 ins
(142.24 x 81.28 cm)
Exhibited:
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signed lower right John Bratby; inscribed on the stretcher Black is the colour of anger Beligerent Black Feb 66
Exhibited:
Zwemmer Gallery, New Paintings by John Bratby, 1966, no.23
New York, ACA Gallery, John Bratby, 1967
Reading Festival of the Arts, 1968, Recent Paintings by John Bratby, no.30
Provenance:
Mr & Mrs Donald Pleasance; Private Collection, USA
.shows new work in his Bohemian powerhouse style: his encrusted and cluttered suburban kitchen gardens might surprise anybody who really thinks London looks like Blow-Up. Far too busy to keep cool, he paints the flesh of a West Indian immigrant model in green, magenta and Winsor & Newton tint. But his vision is too insistent to be just corny, and there is a certain largesse to the exhuberance of his lower-middle-class vision..
- JD, Reviews and Previews, Art News, no.66, 9th April 1967
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1928-1992
Dominican Singer with Zoot Money & his Big Roll Band
1966
oil on canvas
56 x 32 ins
(142.24 x 81.28 cm)
Exhibited:
.
signed lower right John Bratby; inscribed on the stretcher Black is the colour of anger Beligerent Black Feb 66
Exhibited:
Zwemmer Gallery, New Paintings by John Bratby, 1966, no.23
New York, ACA Gallery, John Bratby, 1967
Reading Festival of the Arts, 1968, Recent Paintings by John Bratby, no.30
Provenance:
Mr & Mrs Donald Pleasance; Private Collection, USA
.shows new work in his Bohemian powerhouse style: his encrusted and cluttered suburban kitchen gardens might surprise anybody who really thinks London looks like Blow-Up. Far too busy to keep cool, he paints the flesh of a West Indian immigrant model in green, magenta and Winsor & Newton tint. But his vision is too insistent to be just corny, and there is a certain largesse to the exhuberance of his lower-middle-class vision..
- JD, Reviews and Previews, Art News, no.66, 9th April 1967
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