λ WILLIAM CROZIER (IRISH 1930-2011)SPANISH LANDSCAPE Oil on canvas Signed (lower right)122 x 122cm (48 x 48 in.)Painted in 1964. Spanish Landscape brings together the gritty expressionism found in Crozier's earlier Essex landscapes with a darker foreboding that was to enter his work in the mid to late 1960s. He had travelled to Southern Spain with the Irish poet Anthony Cronin in 1963 and it is this trip that inspired the present work.Born in 1930 in Scotland he graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1953 and naturally gravitated to Soho and the London art scene via the cafes and bars of Paris. Influenced by the European Avant Garde Crozier found early success both in London and abroad. He was awarded the prize of best English artist at Primo Lissone in Milan. In the same year that the present work was painted he was included in the ground breaking 1964 Arts Council exhibition Six Young Painters, which found him exhibiting with Bridget Riley, Dorothy Mead, David Hockney, Peter Blake, and Euan Uglow.λ Indicates that this lot may be subject to Droit de Suite royalty charges. From 1st January 2012 all UK art market professionals are required to collect a royalty payment for all works of art that have been produced by qualifying artists each time a work is re-sold during the artist’s lifetime and for a period up to 70 years following the artists death. This payment is only calculated on qualifying works of art which are sold for a hammer price more than the UK sterling equivalent of EURO 1,000. Please see our Terms and Conditions for a full definition of these charges. For a complete list of the royalty charges and threshold levels, please see www.dacs.org.uk.