Howard HodgkinMr and Mrs Stephen Buckley 1974-6

as a result of staying for the week with the Buckleys in a house they had borrowed at Brede near Rye, Sussex. The subject of the picture is simply a family group sitting round a fire in the evening... The picture was painted on a second-hand wooden drawing board, the surface of which was not primed in any way. The pin-holes can be seen all over the picture.