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1) In Memoriam: Three Trawlers; 2) Study for the Edge of Mount Etna (© The artist)
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1) In Memoriam: Three Trawlers; 2) Study for the Edge of Mount Etna (© The artist)

1) In Memoriam: Three Trawlers; 2) Study for the Edge of Mount Etna

Artist: Keith Grant (born 1930)

Location: Southampton City Art Gallery

Date: 1) circa 1968; 2) 1964

Materials: 1) oil on canvas; 2) gouache

Dimensions: 1) 91.5 x 91.5 cm

Gift:

Review number: 5860 (2006)

Provenance:
Collection of Laurence Harbottle.

Description:
It is thought the painting 'In Memoriam' refers to the Hull Triple Trawler Tragedy of 1968 in which three trawlers from Hull were lost off the coast of Iceland in a three week period during the worst Icelandic storms since 1925. There was only one survivor and over sixty lives were lost.

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