Peter Coker 1926-2004

This is from a group of paintings that Coker made in 1957 based on drawings from his visit to Audierne in Brittany. Apart from the jetty, he made notes and drawings of the lighthouse, wave-forms, fields, stone walls and vegetable plots. The paintings were exhibited the same year in his second solo exhibition at the Zwemmer Galleries, then owned by Michael Chase. Other works from the '57 show are now in the collection of the Tate, Birmingham City Art Gallery and Heckfield Place.

Provenance

Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions

London, Zwemmer Galleries, 'Peter Coker', 1957, no.12;

Retrospective exhibition curated by Michael Chase, Director of The Minories, 'Peter Coker RA':

Colchester, The Minories Art Gallery, October - November 1972;

Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, December 1972;

London, The Morley Gallery, January - February 1973;

Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, February - March 1973.