Artist: Patrick Graham (b.1943) Title: Totem and Ashes 3 (1987) Signature: signed and dated 1987 Medium: oil and mixed media on paper Size: 81½ x 113cm (32.1 x 44.5in) Framed Size: 85 x 115.75cm (33.5 x 45.6in) Provenance: Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London (label verso); Private Collection a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Patrick Graham has always distrusted his own tremendous facility, to the extent that he gave up making art entirely for a time and, it is no exaggeration to say, only returned to it when he became convinced that it was absolutely necessary to his exi... Read more Patrick Graham has always distrusted his own tremendous facility, to the extent that he gave up making art entirely for a time and, it is no exaggeration to say, only returned to it when he became convinced that it was absolutely necessary to his existence. He is a gifted draughtsman and drawing is at the heart of his painting. He goes unashamedly for the big themes: life, love, hate, sex and death, religion and hypocrisy, despair and redemption, Renaissance religious iconography coexists with everyday detail.
Artist: Patrick Graham (b.1943) Title: Totem and Ashes 3 (1987) Signature: signed and dated 1987 Medium: oil and mixed media on paper Size: 81½ x 113cm (32.1 x 44.5in) Framed Size: 85 x 115.75cm (33.5 x 45.6in) Provenance: Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London (label verso); Private Collection a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Patrick Graham has always distrusted his own tremendous facility, to the extent that he gave up making art entirely for a time and, it is no exaggeration to say, only returned to it when he became convinced that it was absolutely necessary to his exi... Read more Patrick Graham has always distrusted his own tremendous facility, to the extent that he gave up making art entirely for a time and, it is no exaggeration to say, only returned to it when he became convinced that it was absolutely necessary to his existence. He is a gifted draughtsman and drawing is at the heart of his painting. He goes unashamedly for the big themes: life, love, hate, sex and death, religion and hypocrisy, despair and redemption, Renaissance religious iconography coexists with everyday detail.
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