Adrian StokesStill Life: Last Eleven (No. 8) 1972

T03583

Oil on canvas, 508 x 407 mm (20 x 16 in)
Inscribed by the artist on top canvas surplus in paint ‘ADS ’72’

Purchased from Mrs Ann Stokes Angus, the artist’s widow (Grant-in-Aid) 1983

Exhibited:
The Last Paintings of Adrian Stokes, Tate Gallery, London, Feb.-March 1973 (no catalogue)
Adrian Stokes, Arts Council tour, Serpentine Gallery, London, June-July 1982, Huddersfield Art Gallery, July-Aug., City Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucester, Sept.-Oct. 1982 (117 as Still Life: Last Eleven)
The Hard Won Image: Traditional Method and Subject in Recent British Art, Tate Gallery, London, July-Sept. 1984 (130)

Literature:
Richard Wollheim, ‘Adrian Stokes’, Listener, 28 Dec. 1972, p.900
John Russell, ‘Review’, Sunday Times, 25 Feb… (read more)