Live Auction 401320th Century British Art
Beryl Cook (1926-2008)
Lot 95

Beryl Cook (1926-2008)

Fish and Chips

Closed22 March 2012

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GBP 25,000

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Beryl Cook (1926-2008)
Fish and Chips
signed 'B Cook' (lower right) and inscribed 'Fish and Chips' (on the reverse)
oil on board
25½ x 15½ in. (64.7 x 39.4 cm.)

Purchased by the present owner from the 1978 exhibition.

Specialist note

'It seems I spend rather a lot of time with food- buying, eating and painting it ... I like to think I so often paint food because of the colours, but could it be the greed?' (Exhibition catalogue, Beryl Cook: Private View, Gallery Five, London, 1980, unpaginated).