DescriptionHand-coloured linocut, 1975. Craxton knew his cats – their inner lives. As his partner Richard Riley pointed out: ‘Craxton was so familiar with the vocabulary of cat moves, gestures and stances that he could capture them with utter conviction in a few strokes of the pen or brush’.*Here we have cat and goldfish, locked in watchful engagement: their very eyes have become one. They are frozen – all is potential action. With its hand-coloured background, this is a particularly successful Craxton linocut.*Andrew Lambirth: Craxton (2024) T&H.
