Signed and dated in pencil.

An elegant ink drawing of an iris by the great British painter Derrick Greaves. Part of a recent series extending the artist's long engagement with flower motifs, the work showcases Greaves's economy and facility and demonstrates his ongoing creativity, invention and reinvention.

Derrick Greaves is one of the most important painters in Britain and is extensively represented in museum and public collections. Greaves initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen-Sink' painters with whom he was initially associated: John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith. After this short period his work swiftly developed into a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop Art. Flatness, linear precision and fields of colour have characterised his work of the last half a century as Greaves has shifted from an imagery based on nature and observable fact to more studio-bound imaginative constructs.