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Peter Brook’s late moonlight series was another variation of his Pennine landscape paintings and complemented his trademark snow scenes with their isolated farms and ruins perfectly.
In ‘Dog - Give Way’ Peter Brook portrays a very different Border Collie than usual. Not one of Peter’s faithful friends, its stance in the middle of the road, together with the threatening sky and title of the painting, suggest it is best avoided. (Sold at Christie’s in 2012)
‘Just a Bit of a Ruin but with a Wonderful View of Stoodley Pike’ is a classic Peter Brook Pennine painting, combining many of his favourite themes and motifs: the abandoned building, the barely noticeable washing line, the redundant telegraph poles and of course the superb sky.
‘March, Melting Snow’ is this month’s lithograph from Peter Brook’s ‘The Twelve Months of the Year’ series commissioned by Agnew’s, his London agent, in 1976. The lone figure by the building adds a touch of mystery to the scene.
Peter Brook was much more than a painter of snow scenes. In ‘Dog, Give Way’ the grey sky and stark houses capture perfectly the Pennine winter weather while the downcast dog adds to the overall sense of gloom. Sold at Christie’s in 2012.
Lingering, one of Peter’s most dramatic Pennine paintings. Unusually man and dog are not side by side. The diminutive Peter by the gate has almost left the scene while Shep ‘lingers’ in the foreground.