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Peter Howson, The Heroic Dosser<\/i>, 1988, screen print, 55 \u00be” x 42 \u00bc”.<\/p><\/div>\n

A survey of the Scottish artist Peter Howson\u2019s prints, spanning decades of his work, opened today at Flowers Gallery<\/a> in London. \u201cI had nothing at all in 1984, nothing<\/a>,\u201d Howson said in a 2013 interview:<\/em><\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t have a penny. I was homeless for a year in Glasgow\u2014I lived on the streets\u2014and then suddenly I met this woman and she took me home and said: \u201cLook, why don\u2019t you just start drawing again.\u201d So I started drawing and about a year later everything changed, the whole thing blew up and it was all about money coming in and fame and whatever, and then it all went wrong again. Theoretically, I shouldn\u2019t be here because I\u2019ve nearly died so many times, either with overdoses or with fights or violence or whatever, but I\u2019m still here. There must be a reason for it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Au Bar II<\/i>, 1990, monoprint, 53 \u00bc” x 32″.<\/p><\/div>

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Man with Cigarette<\/i>, 1982, lithograph, 24 \u215d” x 21 \u215b”.<\/p><\/div>

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Suppertime<\/i>, 1987, monotype, 46 \u00bd” x 35 \u00bd”.<\/p><\/div>

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Prince Regent<\/i>, 1998, drypoint, 19 \u00be” x 17 \u00be”.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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