Kate Boxer 'I Won't Eat You'

CRICKET FINE ART

Hanging between laughter and melancholy Magnificence is Kate Boxer’s subject, or at least the constant interplay in her people and her beautiful creatures of vulnerability and magnificence, greatness and fragility. It seems as if that vulnerability may be the one essential aspect of their greatness and they are only as marvellous and alluring as they are because they can admit and embrace and even display their tenderness. Every one of them says it: I am great because I am so human.

They are also funny, dressed up in their gestures and their accoutrements, their furniture and cigarettes, beautiful little notations of their lives and ways of being, as if all this were the plumage of the people, the lyre-bird bits and pieces they have gathered around them to make them who they are.

In this collection, these subtle, hood-eyed figures live in world of radiant, life-loving colour. They hang between laughter and melancholy, perhaps because the paintings hang between economy and richness, between those simple, expressive ghost-like faces and the funny stuff of life: Daphne du Maurier’s cigarette held slackly, cowboy style in her lipsticky lips; the little wheels on Constance Spry’s chair and the impossible thinness of the table leg on which she has set her cup of tea; Eric von Stroheim’s exhaled plume past the only eye his mad patent-leather cap-peak will reveal.

There is a hint that she is teasing them all for their vanities and their self-importance, the elaborate show they are putting on for the world, but Kate’s vision of her people is essentially kind, understanding vanity and forgiving it, looking beyond it to something much larger, the heroic tenderness of the great.

Adam Nicolson

Front cover: Anton Chekov

Above: I Won’t Eat You

Back cover: Octopus

Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms

Drypoint, Chine-collé and Gouache 34 x 461/2 in 86.5 x 118 cms

Drypoint and Carborundum 113/4 x 12 in 30 x 30.5 cms

CRICKET FINE ART REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT THE

PRIVATE VIEW OF

K ATE B OXER I W ON ’ T E AT Y OU at 2 Park Walk, London, SW10 0AD Tuesday 20th September 2016 6.00 – 8.00pm

The exhibition continues until 1st October 2016.

Paintings are for sale on receipt of the catalogue.

The entire exhibition can be viewed at www.cricketfineart.co.uk

CRICKET FINE ART 2 Park Walk Chelsea London SW10 0AD Tel: 020 7352 2733 Mobile: 07778 568 367 email: info@cricketfineart.co.uk website: www.cricketfineart.co.uk

Gustave Klimt Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 2

Berthe Morisot Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 3

Ducks Drypoint and Carborundum 19 x 361/2 in 48.5 x 93 cms

Bumper Drypoint and Carborundum 18 x 181/2 in 46.5 x 47 cms

Lenny Drypoint and Carborundum 26 x 173/4 in 66 x 45 cms 4

This is Our Last Embrace Pastel, Drypoint, Carborundum, Oil Pastel and Daisies 307/8 x 39 in 78.5 x 99 cms

Goat Drypoint and Carborundum 253/4 x 321/2 in 65.5 x 82.5 cms 5

Billie Holiday Acrylic Ink on Canvas 311/2 x 26 in 80 x 66 cms 6

Constance Spry Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 7

8

Robert Louis Stevenson

Agatha Christie

Drypoint and Acrylic Ink 381/4 x 261/8 in 97 x 66.5 cms

Drypoint, Carborundum and Acrylic Ink 291/2 x 253/8 in 75 x 64.5 cms

John Steinbeck

Daphne Du Maurier

Drypoint and Acrylic Ink 293/4 x 26 in 75.5 x 66 cms

Drypoint and Acrylic Ink 261/8 x 297/8 in 66.5 x 76 cms

Eric Von Stroheim Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 9

Stag I Oil on Canvas 643/4 x 72 in 165 x 183 cms 10

Franz Kafka Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 11

Trevor Brooking Acrylic Ink on Canvas 36 x 361/4 in 91.5 x 92 cms

Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry Acrylic Ink on Canvas 353/8 x 471/4 in 90 x 120 cms 12

George Orwell

Dorothy Parker

Drypoint and Carborundum 171/2 x 141/2 in 44 x 36.5 cms

Drypoint and Acrylic Ink 321/4 x 283/4 in 82 x 73 cms

Jaimie D’Cruz

Toulouse Lautrec

Drypoint and Carborundum 15 x 113/4 in 38 x 30 cms

Drypoint and Chine-collé 152/8 x 151/2 in 39 x 39.5 cms 13

Libby Titus Fagen Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 14

FrederĂ­co Garcia Lorca Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 15

Stag II Oil on Canvas 68 x 743/4 in 173 x 190 cms 16

Tinker Drypoint 23 x 233/4 in 59 x 60.5 cms

Elephant Drypoint 29 x 321/4 in 73.5 x 82 cms

Curlew

Jackdaw

Drypoint, Carborundum and Chine-collé 37 x 231/2 in 94.5 x 59.5 cms

Drypoint and Indian Ink 121/8 x 101/8 in 30.5 x 25.5 cms

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Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 18

James Baldwin Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms 19

George Orwell and Henry Miller in Paris

George Orwell with Marx and Henry Ford

Drypoint and Chine-collé 163/8 x 163/8 in 41.5 x 41.5 cms

Drypoint and Chine-collé 163/8 x 163/8 in 41.5 x 41.5 cms

20

Cowboy Dancers

Robin Hood

Drypoint and Carborundum 111/8 x 167/8 in 28 x 43 cms

Drypoint and Chine-collé 163/8 x 181/8 in 41.5 x 46 cms

Muriel Spark Acrylic Ink on Canvas 471/4 x 353/8 in 120 x 90 cms

CRICKET FINE ART 2 Park Walk Chelsea London SW10 0AD Tel: 020 7352 2733 Mobile: 07778 568 367 email: info@cricketfineart.co.uk website: www.cricketfineart.co.uk