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Sarah Colegrave
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GEOFFREY S FLETCHER (1923-2004)
Dining Room of 9 Idol Lane, EC3 - offices of Messrs Deinhard & Co Ltd., wine merchants
( United Kingdom
1961
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Medium
Pen and ink and grisaille watercolour, unframed
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Provenance
The Archives of the Illustrated London News
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Literature:
Reproduced in The Sphere, 25 March 1961
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Description / Expertise
Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He studied at Bolton School of Art before moving to London to study at the Slade under Randolph Schwabe and from this time London was to become one of Fletcher’s enduring interests and passions. In the 1950s his drawings began to appear in The Manchester Guardian and he contributed to the Sphere, recording old and changing London. In 1958 he was taken on by The Daily Telegraph and during the next 30 years hundreds of his drawings accompanied its diary column. In 1962 he published the first of 18 London oriented books: The London Nobody Knows, which was accompanied by a documentary film. He also campaigned for the preservation of historic London. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and New English Art Club. The Guildhall Art Gallery, who hold many of his works, held an exhibition of Geoffrey Fletcher’s City Sights in 2005.
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Status:
SOLD
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