Peter Coker RA, British 1926-2004 - Study for Carcasses on Bench, 1955; pencil and oil on paper, signed with initials lower left 'PC' and dated lower right '55', with artist's label affixed to the reverse of the frame, 26 x 21.3 cm (ARR) Note: this...

Peter Coker RA, British 1926-2004 - Study for Carcasses on Bench, 1955; pencil and oil on paper, signed with initials lower left 'PC' and dated lower right '55', with artist's label affixed to the reverse of the frame, 26 x 21.3 cm (ARR) Note: this is a study for one of Coker’s most important series relating to the butchers shop from his Kitchen Sink period. Important examples of paintings from the series are ‘Butcher Shop, 1955’ (Sheffield City Art Gallery) and ‘Butcher Shop II, 1955’ (Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery). This work was a study for his RA Diploma Picture, 1955, which was presented in 1972. It demonstrates the intense, coarse style he was using at the time, evoking a tough realism. Other studies are now in the Tate and V & A collections. Butcher shop works were a central theme in his one-man show at the Zwemmer Gallery in 1956. The Kitchen Sink School was a term coined by David Sylvester in 1954 to refer to the social realist style of Coker’s contemporaries John Bratby, Derrick Greaves, Jack Smith and Edward Middleditch in the 1950s.
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