Chris Beetles Gallery

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The Meeting

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£750

Signed

Signed with initials

Medium

Ink with bodycolour

Dimensions

5 x 4 inches

Provenance

The Artist's Estate by descent

Illustrated

Radio Times, 25 May 1956, for broadcast on Home Service Welsh on Sunday 27 May 1956 at 9.30pm

Literature

Sylvia Backemeyer, Eric Fraser: Designer & Illustrator, London: Lund Humphries, 1998, Page 125

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1870-2021', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2021-January 2022, No 176

The Welsh poet and doctor, Dannie Abse (1923-2014), wrote The Meeting specifically for radio. It was broadcast on the Welsh Home Service on 27 May 1956, and its action was outlined in Radio Times as that in which ‘a young man hopes and believes that the message of the Speaker, when he arrives, will give meaning to the aimless existence of the inhabitants’ of a ‘great city’. It has been considered the precursor of Abse’s 1960 stage play, The House of Cowards.
Framed