Title: Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poet's Eye Author: Grigson, Geoffrey Place: London Publisher: Frederick Muller Date: [1944] Description: vi, 122 pp. 16 full-page color lithographs by John Craxton. Pictorial cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. John Leith Craxton, RA, (1922-2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian". He applied for Chelsea School of Art but was considered to be too young to attend nude life classes. He studied instead at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris during 1939, until the outbreak of war meant he had to complete his studies in London, at Westminster School of Art and the Central School of Art. Between 1941 and 1942, having been rejected for military service, he attended Goldsmiths College, then toured the wilds of Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland in 1943. His first solo exhibition was in London in 1942 at the Swiss Cottage Café, and his first major solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1944. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket soiled, price clipped and with repairs on reverse; volume spine leaning, hinges cracking; lithographs bright; very good. Item number: 231814
Title: Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poet's Eye Author: Grigson, Geoffrey Place: London Publisher: Frederick Muller Date: [1944] Description: vi, 122 pp. 16 full-page color lithographs by John Craxton. Pictorial cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. John Leith Craxton, RA, (1922-2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian". He applied for Chelsea School of Art but was considered to be too young to attend nude life classes. He studied instead at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris during 1939, until the outbreak of war meant he had to complete his studies in London, at Westminster School of Art and the Central School of Art. Between 1941 and 1942, having been rejected for military service, he attended Goldsmiths College, then toured the wilds of Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland in 1943. His first solo exhibition was in London in 1942 at the Swiss Cottage Café, and his first major solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1944. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket soiled, price clipped and with repairs on reverse; volume spine leaning, hinges cracking; lithographs bright; very good. Item number: 231814
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