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Richard Hamilton
Bathroom - fig. 1
- Estimate
- £2,000 - 3,000♠
Lot Details
Computer-processed Iris giclée print in colours, on Somerset paper, with full margins.
1997
I. 40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
S. 61.5 x 55.5 cm (24 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
S. 61.5 x 55.5 cm (24 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
Signed, titled, and numbered 17/50 in pencil (there were also 25 impressions in Roman numerals), published by the artist, distributed by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, for documenta X, Kassel, 1997, and Alan Cristea Gallery, London, framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"This print is among my first attempts to directly output an edition from work done on a graphics computer. The image derives from the "Seven Rooms" paintings now being shown at documenta - stark spaces, which I felt invited habitation. Inspired by a visit to an exhibition of late Degas paintings, I decided for a woman rising from her bath. "Bathroom" is complex in that a level of geometric abstraction is added to the surface. This is intended to flatten a representation of space so strongly accented that the areas of unbroken color have a hard time in holding their own. The fluidity of blurred photographic texture ads another dimension to the room - a psychological layer emerges into view."
- Richard Hamilton (Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 138)
- Richard Hamilton (Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 138)
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