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Edge of Dartmoor signed with initials and dated '51' (lower right) oil on board 39.5 x 49.5cm

Footnote: Provenance With The Froyle Gallery, Hampshire Clifford Fishwick was born in Accrington, Lancashire and received his training at the Liverpool School of Art between 1940-42. In 1947 Fishwick moved to Devon where he began teaching at Exeter College of Art, before being appointed Principal of the College in 1958. Closely associated with St Ives painters, Peter Lanyon, Trevor Bell and Paul Feiler, Fishwick regularly exhibited alongside the Newlyn and Penwith societies. Influenced by the abstraction favoured by his Cornish contemporaries, the mastery of colour and light of Turner, and the structural brilliance of Cezanne, Fishwick’s landscapes, which frequently referred to his West Country surroundings both topographically and culturally, are at once completely individual, whilst also belonging to a broader historical context.

Condition report: Oil on artists' board. The support and paint layers are in a good condition overall. There is a light layer of dust across the surface and some white accretions at the lower left corner. The frame is in a good condition.

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