John Craxton valuation
English painter of Greece, its shepherds, sailors and landscapes, who made his home on Crete.
John Craxton (1922–2009) was born in St John's Wood, London, the son of the musician Harold Craxton.
What a work by John Craxton is worth
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Bio
John Craxton (1922–2009) was born in St John's Wood, London, the son of the musician Harold Craxton. He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1939, then at Westminster School of Art, the Central School of Arts and Crafts and Goldsmiths College. In 1943 he toured Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland, and his early work, shown at the Leicester Galleries in 1944, was seen as part of the Neo-Romantic revival, though he preferred to call himself a kind of Arcadian. After the war he travelled widely, above all in Greece, from 1946, and from about 1970 he lived on Crete, dividing his time between the island and London. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1993.
His paintings, drawings and lithographs come to market, along with designs for book jackets. A buyer will want the date, since the Neo-Romantic work of the 1940s and the Greek pictures that followed are collected differently, and the history of the work, including any exhibition at the Leicester Galleries. Paintings should be checked for cracking and lifting paint, and works on paper for fading and staining.
At a glance
- Born
- 3 October 1922, St John's Wood
- Died
- 17 November 2009, London
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