Chris Gollon
An Evening Out with Max Beckmann, 2002
Acrylic on canvas, circa 2002, 16” x 16” (41 x 41 cm), framed dimensions shown below.
18 x 18 in
45.7 x 45.7 cm
45.7 x 45.7 cm
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Chris Gollon very occasionally painted an imaginary evening out with great painters of the past, whom he admired, wondering what an evening out with them might have been like. Gollon...
Chris Gollon very occasionally painted an imaginary evening out with great painters of the past, whom he admired, wondering what an evening out with them might have been like. Gollon was extremely well read with a huge library of books on art and artists, and had a great interest in artists’ biographies. Max Beckmann was one of his favourite German artists, and perhaps the watery sun and the denuded trees allude to Beckmann's experience of two World Wars.