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- Joe Tilson 1928 – 2023
- Medium
- Etching, aquatint and carborundum on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 552 × 464 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1984
- Reference
- P77059
Catalogue entry
Joe Tilson born 1928
P77059 The Arrival of Dionysos
1982
Etching with aquatint and carborundum on laid paper 552 x 464 (21 3/4 x 18 1/4); printed by Jack Shirreff at 107 Workshop, Westbury, Wiltshire and published by Waddington Graphics in an edition of 25
Inscribed ‘Tilson 1982' b.r. and ‘19/25' b.l.; publisher's stamp b.l.
Purchased from Waddington Graphics (Grant-in-Aid) 1984
Lit:
Susan Smith, ‘Joe Tilson: Prints of the late 1960s and 1970s', unpublished MA report, University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art 1985, pp.18-33; Marco Livingstone, ‘Unity and Wholeness: Elements in the Art of Joe Tilson' in Joe Tilson: Recent Works 1985-7, exh. cat., Waddington Galleries 1987, pp.2-4
See entry on P77058.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.465
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