Greaves's painting, By the Sea (Portrait of Prunella Clough) (1972) is a large-scale portrait of the artist inspired by the car journeys that she would take to watch storms over the sea and suggests both the enclosure of a car and the horizonless expanse of sea blurring into sky.
Provenance
Private Collection, London
History
Sunderland Arts Centre, Some Enguiries and Observations.
Pop Classical: Derrick Greaves Paintings from the 70's, James Hyman Gallery, London, 30 March - 28 April 2006.
Literature
James Hyman, Derrick Greaves: From Kitchen Sink to Shangri-La, Lund Humphries, London, 2007, illustrated plate 78, P.112.
Sunderland Arts Centre, Some Enguiries and Observations, illustrated