Maurice Cockrill

Maurice Cockrill (b. 1936) is one of Britain's most important abstract artists. This definitive book traces his distinguished career, from the realist and Pop works he produced as a central figure in the Liverpool art scene in the 1960s to the expressionist and abstract work he began to make after moving to London in the 1980s. Essays by renowned artists and art historians provide an overview of Cockrill's development, his early realist paintings and their links with his later abstract compositions, and an analysis of 12 key works.