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William Brooker

William Brooker (1918 - 1983) was active/lived in England.  William Brooker is known for Figure in landscape, still life and genre painting, abstraction.

William Brooker's early work had originally been indebted to Sickert and English anecdotal Impressionism. The 20th century brought with it new influences, primarily from France, and Brooker reacted to this during the 1950s when he appears to have changed his style and rejected the Camden Town and Euston Road traditions.

Writing in the preface to the artist's important 1968 one man exhibition at Arthur Tooth and Sons, Edwin Mullins commented 'suddenly formal compositions replaced genre, objects replaced people, an interior became a kind of laboratory, a cell, rather than a place to live in.

Then there is the rich fuzz of paint which drags light gently into shadow across the surface of the canvas, picking up as it goes all sorts of echoes (after images) of those still-life objects clustered on the table below. Bottles, pots, jars, boxes, they have half-lost their identity until after a while the shadows between and around them become more positive shapes tha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2208 characters.]  Artist bio

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White Still Life , 1965

William Brooker

Lot 208
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GREY STILL LIFE I , 1969

William Brooker

Lot 64
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Still Life - Dessicating Jar , 1966

William Brooker

Lot 57
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Grey Still Life I , 1969

William Brooker

Lot 102
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Gourds on a Cloth , 1976

William Brooker

Lot 178
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Still life , 1964

William Brooker

Lot 56
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