Michael Fell, Covent Garden Late Morning, 1968

Covent Garden – Late Morning

1968 ⓘ
Etching
14 × 13.5 cm
Inventory no. MF-E-09
Collection: British Museum, London (1972,0408.2)
© Michael Fell Estate
Photograph © Joe Humphrys
Along the edge of the square, people sit outside a café in a tightly packed horizontal group. A kiosk rises behind them as a dark central vertical, with lighter passages opening around it. Overlapping bodies and table edges compress the scene, pushing the social space up against the borders of the plate.

Bibliography

  • Modern Prints and Drawings and Other Recent Acquisitions, British Museum, 1972
  • Adrian Bartlett, “Printmaking”, in The Art of Michael Fell, Unicorn, 2024, p. 58
  • British Museum Collection database (1972,0408.2)

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