Salmon Nets, Achiltibuie

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Salmon Nets, Achiltibuie

Peter Coker (1926-2004)

Price

SOLD

Signed

Signed with initials
Signed and dated 1987 on reverse

Medium

Oil on canvas

Catalogue Raisonné No

530

Dimensions

36 x 48 inches

Provenance

Cargill Europe

Literature

Royal Academy Illustrated, 1991, page 36;
Peter Coker RA, London: Chris Beetles Ltd, 2002, pages 103, 139 and 156, Catalogue Raisonne no 530

Exhibited

Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1991, No 466;
'Oil Paintings and Drawings by Peter Coker RA', Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh, November-December 1991, no 5;
'Peter Coker RA: The Studio Sale', Chris Beetles Gallery, October 2017, no 228;
'Anthony Green RA: Among Royal Academy Artists and Friends', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, May-August 2018, no 41;
'Home and Abroad: The Landscapes of Peter Coker RA and Keith Grant', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2024

'The Cokers made their third visit to Badenscallie in June 1987. Not having been there before in the summer, they were greeted by an astonishing sight, and one which would become for Peter the central motif of his work in the area. In such coastal villages as Achiltibuie and Badentarbat, fishermen had put out their salmon nets for drying and mending, both stretched high on poles and spread out on the grass.
These nets made the terrain seem unfamiliar by providing an indeterminate frame through which it could be viewed. In surprising reminiscence of the plants at the Clos du Peyronnet, they both created vistas and instilled those vistas with life. It is the nets, rather than the fishermen that use them, which truly provide the dynamism of the finished canvases and bear their significance; they that best represent the local character and way of life, and even bare the signs of a wider humanity's trials and triumphs'.
Peter Coker RA, 2002, page 103

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