John Craxton 1922-2009
Girl in a Green Dress, 1947
oil on board
21¼ by 17 inches
signed and dated

Provenance
The Artist
Christopher Hull Gallery, London
Private Collection, UK



The sitter for this painting was a young girl, a member of the family with whom Craxton stayed on the Greek island of Poros for five months in 1947. He was accompanied on this trip by the painter Lucien Freud.