Chris Beetles Gallery

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Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£850

Signed

Signed

Medium

Pen ink and watercolour

Dimensions

8 x 6 inches

Provenance

The Artist's Family

Illustrated

Unpublished design for Kate Christie, Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye, London: Macmillan, 1961, Dust Jacket

Exhibited

'Eric Fraser 1902-1983', Chris Beetles Gallery, April-May 2013, No 164;
'A Century of British Art: 1945-2010', Chris Beetles Gallery, 5 October-6 November 2021, No 279

Written by Kate Christie (1917-circa 2009), the novel, Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye (1961), concerns the love of teenager, Clara Winstanley, for doomed alcoholic, Jimmy Lowden, who has returned to live in a crumbling house in the Cumberland valley. The disturbing nature of their relationship is suggested by the surreal motif of Eric Fraser’s jacket design.

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