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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Once seen as the coming force in British painting, John Craxton deserves another look

He lived in GREECE on and off for decades, and settled more or less permanently in Crete in 1970. In the book accompanying the exhibition, Craxton's biographer, Ian Collins, notes that in his later years a large black canvas generally sat on his easel, 'apparently as a deterrence to further labour'.


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