Description
Coloured pencil Drawing, 'Clown with dog and broom', c1990s,Alice Mary Fitzpayne (b.1928)
Mounted ready for framing on soft white card and matching backing card with cellophane protective wrapping.
Overall size of the mount measures approx. 11" x 14" (which means it will fit standard size picture frame). The visible picture opening is 7.75" x 9.75" (approx.)
About the Artist:
Draughtsman and painter; born Catterick, Yorshire on 23 March 1928; studied from age thirteen on a scholarship at Leeds Art College and then at Central School of Art and Design, London where she met her husband, Eric Doitch (q.v.), the Austrian Jewish refugee artist; she also studied at Royal College of Art under Rodrigo Moynihan, Carel Weight, John Minton, Francis Bacon and Ruskin Spear; in 1954 she married Eric Doitch and through him met the artistic circle of refugees from Germany and Austria in London, including Henry Inlander, Elias Canetti and Erich Fried; she settled in Camberwell, south-east London and from the early 1960s focussed on drawing in a figurative style those on the margins of society documenting the down-and-the outs and the homeless in different parts of London; in the mid-1970s she moved with Eric Doitch to a Fenland village outside Boston in Lincolnshire; since 2008-9 she has made a series of drawings from direct observation of rural down-and-outs in Lincolnshire recently arrived as immigrants from Eastern Europe.