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Weight often populated his work with ghostly presences and in 'I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart' the solitary man on the right appears as a ghost, watching the couple on the left, walking hand in hand. The landscapes in Weight’s paintings were often places adapted from childhood memory and he filled them with imagined circumstances. Weight commented about his work: ‘But what interests me most about the human situation – or perhaps predicament would be a better word – is the ever-present imminence of danger and disaster, of the sudden, unexpected, often terrible happening’.

Jerwood Collection

Title

I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart

Date

1978

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 71 x W 91.5 cm

Accession number

JC80

Work type

Painting

Signature/marks description

signed 'Carel Weight' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'CAREL WEIGHT / 33 Spencer Rd SW18 2SP / 3 I cheer a dead man’s / SWEETHEART-' (on a label attached to the frame)

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