John Craxton, having had his first important solo exhibition in 1944 at the Leicester Galleries in London, was invited to go to Greece in 1946 by Peter Norton [Lady Norton]. She had championed him at The London Gallery, which she had established in 1936, and from where this picture was purchased for the Contemporary Art Society in 1949. Craxton shared a house in Poros for a short time with his friend the painter Lucian Freud (1922–2011), where it is possible this cubist-style still-life was executed.