DescriptionHand-coloured digital print, 1990’s. 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 stealing fish. These, still in their fish monger’s paper, are ready for frying – if, that is, the cat doesn’t get to them beforehand.
