Peter Coker
Fish and Newspapers
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November 26, 03:10 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Peter Coker, R.A.
1926 - 2004
Fish and Newspapers
signed Peter Coker (lower right); also twice signed (on the stretcher bar); also signed Peter. G. Coker (on the stretcher bar); titled, dated 1956 and inscribed (on the canvas overlap); signed PETER COKER and variously inscribed (on the reverse of the frame)
oil on canvas
unframed: 126 by 100cm.; 49½ by 39¼in.
framed: 144.5 by 119.5cm.; 57 by 47in.
Executed in 1954-6.
Acquired directly from the Artist by the family of the present owner
London, St Martins School of Art, 1955 (details untraced)
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Paintings by Peter Coker, 10 – 31 January 1956, no.14 (details untraced)
London, Arts Council, Painters in East Anglia, 1966, no.21, with Arts Council tour (details untraced)
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Coker - Paintings & Drawings of the Butcher’s Shop, 15 January – 19 August 1979, no. 1, with tour to The University of Liverpool, Liverpool; Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle; Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Doncaster and the Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
David Wootton (ed.), Peter Coker RA, Chris Beetles Ltd, London, 2002, no. 29, illustrated p. 41
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