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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Derrick Greaves (b.1927)
Please scroll down for further information. Derrick Greaves (b.1927) Coffee II Mixed media 56 x 76 cms (22 x 30 inches) 2001 The emblematic, even heraldic, quality, of Coffee II (2002) recalls Greaves' days as a sign writer, illustrating Marmite pots and Raleigh bicycles. Pictures of a coffee jug, for example, began as a depiction of a coffee pot on a shelf and, partly in remembrance of a café in Belsize Park in London, Greaves also included a decorative cross pattern derived from its tiled walls. Eventually, as Greaves deconstructed the coffee pot, he felt able to leave out the situating shelf and the decorative tiles, reconstructing the jug, as though from a model, to create a new schematic form: ‘the structure was pushed through the sieve of the mind and remade as a painting, as something which could not be remade in reality’. Such boldness was a breakthrough, leading to recent works that similarly reinvent form. Please click here to contact us about this item, or if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
