Beryl Cook (British, 1926-2008)The Jaguar
signed 'B. Cook' (lower right)
oil on board
45 x 57cm (17 11/16 x 22 7/16in).
Painted in 1987注脚Provenance
With Portal Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 5 July 1988
Private Collection, U.K.

Literature
Beryl Cook, Beryl Cook's London, John Murray Ltd. and Gallery Five Ltd, London, 1988, (coll.ill.)
Beryl Cook and Joe Whitlock Blundell (ed.), Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, Victor Gollancz, London, 2000, (col.ill. p.254)

'As his fur was so especially lustrous, I decided to paint the jaguar, and set him against a suitably wintry sky.' Beryl Cook, quoted in Beryl Cook and Joe Whitlock Blundell (ed.), Beryl Cook: The Bumper Edition, Victor Gollancz, London, 2000, p.254.