Description
Original coloured pencil Drawing, 'Clowns and A Rooster', 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. 16" x 12" (which means it will fit standard size picture frame). The visible picture opening is 8.75" x 12.75" (approx.)
CONDITION: Light spotting throughout (Please see photos)
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.