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One of Newton's great admirers is Rupert Maas, the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow painting expert. He wrote of this picture: 'Nobody paints like this. These are grapes with dusty attitude, a basket in your face! The leaves scurry dryly across the table with sinister purpose, the skeletal stalks climb and inter-connect the tense spaces between the bottles like cables and gantries. Using a dry brush and a strongly directional light source he puts those seventeenth-century Spanish still life painters firmly in their place. You could place an imaginary ruler anywhere into the depth of this painting and measure precisely the distance between each object, every grape, front to back, so well does he understand perspective. The grapes in the foreground are coming out to get us.
Falmouth Art Gallery
Falmouth
Title
Basket, Bottles and Grapes
Date
1980
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 106.6 x W 111.5 cm
Accession number
FAMAG:2002.9.28
Acquisition method
acquired through The Richard Harris Gift, 2002
Work type
Painting
Falmouth Art Gallery
Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall TR11 2RT England
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