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Richard Hamilton
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Richard Hamilton
- People
- signed in pencil, titled and inscribed artists proof IV/I
- gelatin silver print with screenprint, collage and hand-colouring on photo-enlarging paper, mounted on board, as issued
- plate: 380 by 585mm.; 15¼ by 23¼in.
- sheet: 655 by 845cm.; 25¾ by 33¼in.
- Executed in 1968, the present work is one of 4 artist's proofs aside from the edition of 26. These 4 proofs appear to be hand-worked to a greater degree than those in the standard edition of 26.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the Artist by Colin St John Wilson, 1969
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Richard Hamilton, 12th March - 19th April 1970, cat. no.97 (another version shown);
Middletown, Connecticut, Davison Art Centre, Wesleyan University, The Prints of Richard Hamilton: An Exhibition Organised by Wesleyan University in Conjunction with Petersburg Press, London and New York, 28th September - 4th November 1973, cat. no.21 (another version shown), with North American tour;
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, February - December 1999, on long term loan from Colin St John Wilson;
West Sussex, Charleston Gallery, The Wilson Collection, 19th June - 7th August 2000;
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Art for All (The Print From Sickert to the Sixties), 23rd September 2001 - 6th January 2001, where lent by Colin St John Wilson;
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, June 2006 - August 2012, long-term loan from the Wilson Collection.
Middletown, Connecticut, Davison Art Centre, Wesleyan University, The Prints of Richard Hamilton: An Exhibition Organised by Wesleyan University in Conjunction with Petersburg Press, London and New York, 28th September - 4th November 1973, cat. no.21 (another version shown), with North American tour;
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, February - December 1999, on long term loan from Colin St John Wilson;
West Sussex, Charleston Gallery, The Wilson Collection, 19th June - 7th August 2000;
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Art for All (The Print From Sickert to the Sixties), 23rd September 2001 - 6th January 2001, where lent by Colin St John Wilson;
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, June 2006 - August 2012, long-term loan from the Wilson Collection.
Literature
Etienne Lullin, Richard Hamilton, Prints and Multiples 1939 - 2002, Kunstmuseum, Winterhur and Richard Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2003, cat. no.66, illustrated pp.84-5, (another from the edition).
Condition
Full margins, pale mount staining.
There is a small, 6cm. faint abrasion to the centre of the left margin, with associated skinning. There is a small spot of residue at the extreme lower right corner and minor scuff on the margin outside of the image, not visible in the present mount. There is further, occasional pale and very slight staining at the lower left-corner, again not visible in the present mount. There is a very slight fleck of loss to the applied white pigment dotted towards the centre of the composition, visible upon very close inspection. This excepting the work appears in very good condition.
Housed behind glass in a thin metal frame and set within a cream mount.
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