CORRIDA 100 x 300 cms 1955-6 - 'Corrida' means 'The Running'
Corrida was painted in Madrid whilst I was on a year's Spanish Government scholarship, and it was exhibited in Galeria Abril, Madrid in 1956.
The work reflects my wonderment and thrill on seeing Goya's Black paintings in the Prado, and inspired my lifelong involvement with a long horizontal format. As a young ex-student I was also influenced by Francis Bacon, but the catharsis on seeing Goya's paintings made me want to attempt to reconcile aspects of both these two artists, together with my experience of the bullfight. The painting is also about degrees of fear, expressed by both humans and animals, not exclusively about the implied setting which hints at the bullring.
It is of course a homage to Goya.
The work reflects my wonderment and thrill on seeing Goya's Black paintings in the Prado, and inspired my lifelong involvement with a long horizontal format. As a young ex-student I was also influenced by Francis Bacon, but the catharsis on seeing Goya's paintings made me want to attempt to reconcile aspects of both these two artists, together with my experience of the bullfight. The painting is also about degrees of fear, expressed by both humans and animals, not exclusively about the implied setting which hints at the bullring.
It is of course a homage to Goya.
Anthony Whishaw
LAST SUPPER 4 x 16 ft 1959 - Collection - CHRISTCHURCH, KENSINGTON
> CRUCIFIXION 8 x 4 ft 1956 COLLECTION - CHRISTCHURCH, KENSINGTON |
Oil on Board - PRIVATE COLLECTION |
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| PORTRAIT OF DAVID WILLIAMS 52 x 43 cms 1956 - Oil on Board |
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 MAN EATING 76 x 107 cms 1959 PRIVATE COLLECTION Oil on Board |
| SLEEPING FIGURE 122 x 152 cms 1959 - PRIVATE COLLECTION | |
 TWO COWS 152 x 213 cms 1961 - COLLECTION - ARTS COUNCIL |
 TWO MEN DRILLING 180 x 122 cms 1958 COLLECTION - THE HERBERT, COVENTRY |
 ARCOS DE LA FRONTERA 155 x 175 cms 1960 On loan to THE TAVISTOCK CENTRE  See Essays - Terence Mullaly - Daily Telegraph |
 ARCOS DE LA FRONTERA II92 x 122 cms 1962 PRIVATE COLLECTION |
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| PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA 76 x 120 cms 1963 | |
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| ROOF TOPS, PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA 30.5 x 60.5 cms 1962 - Oil on Board | |
