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SN: 3153
Ink and watercolour on paper, 4 1/8 x 7 1/4 in. (10.5 x 18.5cm.)
(7 x 10 in. (17.5 x 25.5cm.) framed) Signed.
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SN: 3281
Signed and dated 12.5.1944
Watercolour and pen and ink
9 x 11 1/2 in. (23 x 29.2 cm.)
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SN: 3431
Titled and dated, Pen and Ink, 20 x 12.8cm (29 x 22cm framed)
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SN: 4549
Signed and dated
Pen and ink on paper
18 x 13 cm (framed: 27 x 22 cm)
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SN: 4619
Signed and dated
Pen and ink with brown wash on paper
6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (16.7 x 10.3 cm)
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SN: 4916
Signed and dated '54
Pen and Ink and pencil
6 7/8 x 5 1/4 (17.5 x 13.5)Painter and poet, born in Lavenham, Suffolk. After a childhood addiction to drawing aeroplanes, he did war service in the Army, then attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1948-52, being influenced by Keith Vaughan and John Minton. in 1950's developed from figuration to abstraction. He said that any titles on his pictures were "meant to be interpreted as poetry, to engender a state of mind rather than describe exactly what the particular picture is." Was influenced by European abstractionists and by English poetry, such as that of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Hardy, also by the work of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Dylan Thomas. As well as painting, Durrant was employed in administrative work at Vickers from 1956-63 and was a director of the Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, 1963-76. Showed with Free Painters and Sculptors, of which he was a fellow, and with NEAC, of which he was a member, and quite often with RA from 1950. in 1960 his show at Guildhall, Lavenham, in 1948, he showed regularly, later exhibitions including Loggia Gallery, Gallery of British Art in Lausanne and Belgrave Gallery, 1991. Roy Turner Durrant, Painter and Poet, was held at Chappel Galleries, Chappel, in 2003. Modern British Artists also sold his work. Several dozen public collections hold his work, including Imperial War Museum, Bradford City Art Gallery and Balliol College, Oxford. Lived in Cambridge.
A monograph on Durrant, written by Peter Davies, is due to be published by John Sansom
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SN: 5030Signed and dated 1952, inscribed with title
pen and ink
17.5 x 13 cm ( 26.5 x 22 cm framed)
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SN: 3154
Signed and dated
Ink on paper
4 1/4 x 7 in. (11 x 17.8cm)
(7 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (18 x 25cm) framed)
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SN: 3155
Ink on paper, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (11.5 x 9cm.)
(7 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (18.5 x 16cm.) framed) Signed and dated.
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SN: 3156
Coloured crayons on paper, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19 x 14cm.)
(10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (26 x 21cm.) framed) Signed and dated.
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SN: 3174
Watercolour and ink on paper, 5 1/8 x 8 1/16 in. (13 x 20.5cm.)
(8 x 10 1/2 in. (20 x 27.5cm.) framed) Dated and signed.
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SN: 3432
Signed and dated
Ink and gouache
15 x 10.5cm (24 x 19.5cm framed)
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SN: 3433
Signed and dated,
Ink on paper, 12 x 20cm (20 x 28cm framed)
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SN: 3888
Signed, inscribed and dated (twice), titled on the reverse
Blue wax crayon and wash
10 3/4 x 15 in. (37,5 x 27, 5 cm.)
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist circa 1970
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SN: 4546
Signed and dated 1956
Pencil and gouache on paper
21.3 x 12.8 cm (30.5 x 22.5 cm)
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SN: 4550
Signed and dated
Pen and ink on paper
16 x 22.5 cm (framed: 25 x 31.5 cm)
