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Lot 195
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Richard Hamilton

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Richard Hamilton
  • Guggenheim (black, white and chrome)
  • each signed in felt-tip pen and numbered 52/750, 28/750 and 15/750 respectively

  • vacuum formed plexiglas multiples
  • 59 by 59cm.; 23¼ by 23¼in.
  • Produced in 1970 by Reif, Relo-Kunststoffe, Lörrach, with projected editions of 750, of which 106, 117 and 48 respectively were actually produced.

Provenance

Xartcollection, pub.
Editions Alecto Limited, where acquired by Colin St John Wilson, 1971

Literature

Etienne Lullin, Richard Hamilton, Prints and Multiples 1939 - 2002, Kunstmuseum, Winterhur and Richard Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2003, cat. no. M3 (Black), M4 (White) & M5 (Chrome) illustrated pp.250-1 (other casts).

Condition

Silver: With minor scuffing and scratching, flecks of pigment loss to the silver body, most visible at the extreme edges. Further surface dirt appears. The backing partially detached, with scuffing and pale stains verso. White: Scuff marks and very minor scratches are apparent, with further isolated and very minor flecks of matter appearing. This excepting it appears in very good condition. Backing slightly loose at the bottom right edge. Black: Scratches and very minor scuff marks appear, with very minor flecks of pigment loss at the edges. This excepting the work appears in very good condition. Backing partially detached at the top right corner. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions relating to the present work.
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Catalogue Note

‘I was following… the mode of creation of architecture by first of all getting the dramatic feel,…as though I was starting from scratch with this kind of concept and revisualising it…(When) I began work on the relief, I found it necessary…to study...the plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, because it is a very difficult building to understand from the exterior… I found myself trying to relate the plans to the kind of viewpoint I had taken…Having a better understanding of the building I then began to make drawings which approached his problem at a technical level.’ (The Artist, quoted in Etienne Lullin,  Richard Hamilton: Prints and Multiples 1939-2002, Kunstmuseum Winthur and Yale Center for British Art,  New Haven, 2003, p.72)