KATE BOXER Liberace I presume?
When Kate Boxer announces a show a palpable excitement thrills the air. It has been two years since Kate last had a show and since then all our lives have been turned on their head upside down and inside out with a presence in our lives, a current covid with alarming consequences. This makes a show by Kate so very special as we are sorely in need of good things that please enormously. Enter “Liberace I presume” doing just that, illuminating our lives with guile and wit, charm and beautifully vivid colours that endow the pictures with Kate’s rapier strokes. Kate has an uncanny knack of putting together a cast of folk who, plucked from times long gone to the present day have a powerful presence, timeless, with voices that resonate from the page, the stage, the screen, a canvas, persons real or imagined who enlightened and amused, raised our consciousness and raged against an unjust world who fuel our thoughts as do Kate’s pictures beguiling with bold imagery, a constant reminder that life is enhanced by doers, be they Dick Turpin, Elizabeth David or Emily Dickinson. Marooned at her farm in West Sussex Kate was already in the process of creating a whole new series of portraits of heros and heroines, among them writers and poets, actors and playwrights and composers, radicals, entertainers, authors and cooks, favourite places, beloved animals furred and feathered, homebound and wild all captured by the artist’s quick eye and quicker hand. Seeing James Baldwin in proximity to Patricia Highsmith alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini while Patsy Cline and Henry Purcell converse about something we can only imagine radiates pure magic. And of course there is Diana Dors distracting everyone, even Sergei Diaghilev as Tennessee Williams looks on. There is a seeming ease to this gathering of titans and birds, a red camel and a bull so thoughtful and considered the most arresting images result. And so we ask, “Play it again Liberace …” Jeremy Lee, chef proprietor of Quo Vadis P.S. “Totally abashed and smiling I walk in sit down and face the frigidaire.” Kate Boxer
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Frank O’Hara
Alicia Markova
Helen of Troy
Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm
Acrylic ink on canvas 110 × 90 cm
Drypoint and acrylic medium 52.9 × 65.8 cm
CRICKET FINE ART LONDON Request the pleasure of your company at the solo show of
KATE BOXER Liberace I presume? at 2 Park Walk, London SW10 0AD
21st October - 7th November 2020
Paintings are for sale on receipt of the catalogue. The entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.cricketfineart.co.uk
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Samia Lakhdari, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired, Hassiba Ben Bouali Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 130 cm 2
Edward Gorey Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm 3
Hanna Schygulla Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm 4
James Baldwin Drypoint, carborundum and hand-coloured 79.4 × 68.6 cm
Patsy Cline Drypoint, acrylic ink and gouache 69.5 × 45.3 cm
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Janis Joplin Acrylic ink on canvas 110 × 90 cm 6
Bill Withers Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm 7
Tennessee Williams and Mr Moon Drypoint and gouache 103 × 67.5 cm
See you at the Palace Drypoint, acrylic medium and gold leaf 80.7 × 113 cm
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Henry Purcell Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm 9
Pier Paulo Pasolini Acrylic ink on canvas 110 × 90 cm 10
Barbara Castle Acrylic ink on canvas 110 × 90 cm 11
It’s Louise! Drypoint, gouache and oil pastel 79.5 × 99.7 cm
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Monty
Lola
Carborundum and gouache 50.5 × 48.5 cm
Carborundum and gouache 56.2 × 62.6 cm
Otis on Horseback Acrylic ink on canvas 175.5 × 140 cm 13
Marguerite Duras Acrylic ink on canvas 110 × 90 cm 14
Jessye Norman Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm 15
Sergei Diaghilev Drypoint, carborundum and gouache 94 Ă— 64.5 cm
Billie Holiday Drypoint, carborundum, glitter and gouache 51 Ă— 59.3 cm
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Diana Dors Drypoint, carborundum, acrylic medium and gouache 94.4 × 65 cm
Baruch Spinoza Drypoint, carborundum and gouache 83.6 × 59.8 cm
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Ennio Morricone Acrylic ink on canvas 87 × 82 cm 18
Edith Wharton Acrylic ink on canvas 120 × 90 cm 19
Patricia Highsmith Acrylic ink on canvas 86.5 × 82 cm 20
Anita and Giuseppe Garibaldi Pigment and mixed media on canvas 130 × 120 cm
South Uist II
South Uist I
Drypoint, Chine collee and carborundum 49.8 × 49.5 cm
Drypoint, Chine collee and carborundum 49.8 × 49.5 cm 21
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