Chris Beetles Gallery

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Journey Into Spring

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£750

Signed

Signed

Medium

Pen ink and watercolour

Dimensions

7 ½ x 6 inches

Provenance

The Artist's Family

Illustrated

Preliminary design for Winston Clewes, Journey into Spring, London: Michael Joseph, 1948, Dust Jacket

Exhibited

'Eric Fraser 1902-1983', Chris Beetles Gallery, April-May 2013, No 63;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 274

The novelist and playwright, Winston Clewes (1906-1957), made his name with Violent Friends (1944), a novelised biography of Jonathan Swift and his relationship with Esther Johnson. His third novel, Journey into Spring (1948), was advertised as ‘an original, exquisitely worked-out, richly human story of an English village and its mellowing influence on a stranger’, Godfrey Fletton, the last lord of the manor.

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