Works

Kitchen-Sink Painting. 1942-58

Mother and Child (Baby on Lap)

  • Pencil on paper
  • 57 x 42.5 cms
  • 1956

Mother and Child (Baby on Lap)

signed and dated lower right 'Whitsun 56'

A prevalent theme of the early work of Derrick Greaves, was that of a mother and baby. Reflecting both personal circumstances and a post-war baby-boom, these prosaic images were nonetheless an antidote to Henry Moore's lofty idealisation of the subject as a universal symbol of maternity.

Provenance

Claire and James Hyman, London

Literature

James Hyman, Derrick Greaves:From Kitchen Sink to Shangri-La, Lund Humphries, London 2007, illustrated p.45.

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