- Artist
- Malcolm Hughes 1920–1997
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Object: 610 × 610 × 60 mm
frame: 750 × 750 × 100 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1983
- Reference
- T03754
Catalogue entry
T03754 Square Relief. White 1968
Construction, painted wood 24 × 24 × 2 3/8 (610 × 610 × 60)
Inscribed on reverse ‘MALCOLM HUGHES 19 OXFORD RD: ↑TOP LONDON SW15* USE PERSPEX ANTISTATIC/POLISH’
Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1983
Prov: Purchased from the artist by the Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1969 (Circ. 77–1969)
Exh: Four Artists. Reliefs, Constructions and Drawings. John Ernest. Anthony Hill. Malcolm Hughes. Gillian Wise, Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition, 1969 (17); travelling exhibitions of the Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum
The catalogue of the ‘Four Artists’ exhibition prints a statement, dated December 1968, by the artist about this group of constructions, and reproduces a drawing on graph paper that is a study for this relief. A similar drawing, lettered and numbered to show the basis of the pattern, is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue Malcolm Hughes, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, September 1973.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986