Lot 22
  • 22

Richard Hamilton, C.H.

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 GBP
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Description

  • Richard Hamilton, C.H.
  • Release (Lullin 83)
  • Screenprint
  • image: 68.4 by 85.7cm.; 27 by 33 3/4 in.; sheet: 70.2 by 94.8cm.; 27 5/8 by 37 3/8 in.
Screenprint in colours with silver foil collage, 1972, signed in pencil, numbered 111/150 (total edition includes 15 artist's proofs), on Hodgkinson mould-made paper, printed by the artist and Chris Prater at Kelpra Studio, London, with their inkstamp, published by Petersburg Press S.A. for the National Council for Civil Liberties and Release

Condition

With margins, a deckle edge at upper and right margin, at their largest the dimensions of the work are consistent with those recorded in the catalogue raisonné (Lullin); however the sheet has possibly been fractionally trimmed at the left and/or lower edge, in good condition apart from pale paper discoloration and traces of very light surface soiling in the margins, occasional soft scuff marks and rubbing in the black background, a few very minor scuff marks in the silver foil, a slight undulation in the upper section of the sheet, a few minute fox marks verso, framed.
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