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Ken Currie,  The Crane Driver’s Dream, 1986

Sold for £7,000 at Roseberys on Sep 9, 2025.

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Ken Currie, Scottish b.1960 - The Crane Driver’s Dream, 1986; charcoal on paper, signed lower left 'K.Currie', titled and dated lower right 'The Crane Driver's Dream 1986', sheet: 76 x 94 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Private Collection, purchased from the above in 1986 (according a copy of the original invoice) Note: Currie studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1978 to 1983. He was a leading figure in the New Glasgow Boys, a group of artists that emerged to revive figurative painting, alongside Steven Campbell, Adrian Wiszniewski and Peter Howson. In 2013, he was the subject of a solo exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. His work is held widely in public collections including Tate, London; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; New York Public Library; Imperial War Museum, London; Campbelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; and the British Council, London.

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