Christopher Killip (British, 1946). Horses on Seacoal Beach, Lynemouth, Northumberland, 1982. Gelatin silver print, prin...

Description

Christopher Killip (British, 1946)
Horses on Seacoal Beach, Lynemouth, Northumberland, 1982
Gelatin silver print, printed 2008. Signed in pencil, verso.
image: 9-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
sheet: 16 x 20 inches

PROVENANCE:
Acquired from the artist.

LITERATURE:
G. Badger, Chris Killip, London, Phaidon 55, 2001, np

"This frieze of three horses drawing carts on a windy beach introduces a community and another leitmotif in Killip's work. The strange scene looks like some arcane ritual from another time -- a race, perhaps -- but the reality is much grimmer. These men (and women and children) are collecting seacoal from the beach at Lynemouth, a large colliery village some 15 miles north of Newcastle. Seacoal gathering is a harvest of waste, the recycling of residue from the dumping into the sea of uneconomical coal waste from the nearby mine by the National Coal Board." (Badger, ibid.)


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