Man in a Pub, ?1960s

Ruskin Spear RA (1911 - 1990)

RA Collection: Art

Ruskin Spear often painted the regulars in his local pubs - the Hampshire Hog and the Ravenscourt Arms in Hammersmith, west London. Here, a small elderly man, in a cloth cap is shown from a low viewpoint behind the bar. His head is partially cut off by one of three black skittle-like beer-taps, giving the impression that the picture was not a formally posed composition but a small surreptitious sketch.