Colin SelfGuard Dog on a Missile Base, No. 1 1965

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Artist
Colin Self (born 1941)
Title
Guard Dog on a Missile Base, No. 1
Date 1965
MediumGraphite, ink, watercolour and crayon on card
Dimensionsunconfirmed: 556 x 762 mm frame: 587 x 804 x 28 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased 1974
Reference
T01850

Catalogue entry

Colin Self b.1941

T01850 Guard Dog on a Missle Base, No.1 1965

Not inscribed.
Pencil on card, 21¿ x 30 (55.6 x 76.2).
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1974.
Exh: Piccadilly Gallery, November–December 1965 (41, as ‘Alsation Guard-Dog on Missile Base’, repr.); Young and Fantastic, I.C.A., July–August 1969; Macy’s Department Store, New York, September–October 1969; Eaton’s Department Store, Toronto, October–November, 1969 (not numbered); 11 Englische Zeichner, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, May–June 1973, Kunsthalle, Bremen, July–August 1973 (11, Self section, wrongly dated, repr., catalogue pages unnumbered); Recerue Britse Tekenkunst, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, September–October 1973 (11, Self section, wrongly dated)… (read more)

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