Study from Life: My Mother Dead, 1988

Category: Drawings

Artist: Maggi Hambling

Subject: Drawings

Year of Work: 1988

Media: graphite on paper

Size: 7.75" x 11.73"

From a sketchbook in the British Museum, London

Asked if her mother's death affected her subject matter, Hambling said that, at once, she began to paint sunsets as opposed to rises.

This picture is also featured in, 'Maggi Hambling, the Works' by Andrew Lambirth. Book available from this website. See publications page.

author: iapmag