Lightermen at Isleworth

Catalog no.

0029

Year

1961

Subject

Seascape

Media

Oil / Acrylic /
Oil on board

Size (H x W)

45 x 55 inches

Availability

Sold
Painted at about the same time as painting no.0003. Hard to believe now that people used to have to manually light the gas in the evening and douse it at dawn (c. late '50s), this is a piece of social record!

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