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Alan Sorrell:
The Artist's paint-box and sketching bag on a Windsor chair
Unmounted (ref: 3744)
Pen and ink, waxed crayon, gouache

Tags: Alan Sorrell crayon gouache ink pen and ink interiors still lifes

Sorrell made numerous journeys to distant lands, painting in Iceland (1934), Greece and Turkey (1954), Egypt and the Sudan (1962) where he travelled with a specially made canvas bag designed to stop his materials melting in the sun. A latter-day Holman Hunt, and with some of Holman Hunt’s heroism (!), he faithfully recorded scenes in situ including a remarkable series of over sixty drawings of the villages around Nubia threatened by the building of the High Dam at Aswan (1962). In other pictures his journeys were imagined, dramatic fantasies of falling towers, or trains rushing over viaducts.