David ShrigleyUntitled 2003

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Artwork details

Artist
David Shrigley (born 1968)
Title
Untitled
Date 2003
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionsimage: 298 x 208 mm support: 298 x 208 mm frame: 360 x 270 x 20 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased using funds provided by the 2006 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2007
Reference
T12363
Not on display

Summary

Untitled is a work that combines text with image. The upper half of the page is a crude pen drawing of a lake or a bay, looking over the water towards land. A small sailing boat on the right side of the picture indicates that the lines ruled unevenly over the paper represent water. In the blank area above the narrow strip of hills, two inky fingerprints on either side of the page bracket sketchy marks, made using the artist’s fingers, that graduate from very light to a solid area of black at the top of the picture… (read more)

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