Richard Hamilton b. 1922

Laminated offset lithograph, screenprint, enamel paint and collage printed in colours, 1968, signed in pencil, numbered 10/125, published by the Documenta Foundation, Kassel, on coated stock paper, the full sheet, in good condition apart from minor creasing at lower corners of sheet

Lullin notes on page 86 "in 1968.. (Hamilton's) son brought him a novelty gift of an oversized set of sugar "dentures" from a trip to the seaside...Hamilton playfully attached this to an electric toothbrush made by Braun. Some touches of paint were then applied to the sugar teeth...The ensuing image - like the earlier Toaster-affectionately parodies the advertising campaigns mounted by Braun for their consumer goods."

Etienne Lullin, Richard Hamilton Prints and Multiples 1939-2002 Catalogue Raisonné, Kunst Museum, Winterthur, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, page 86