Catalogue entry
Boyd Webb born 1947
T04120 Scott's Tent1984
Laminated colour photograph 1220 x 1523 (48 x 60)
Inscribed ‘cat no 0142.0 ‘Scotts Tent' Boyd Webb 1984' on back bottom centre
Purchased from Anthony d'Offay Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1985
Prov: Purchased from the artist by Anthony d'Offay Gallery by 1985
Exh: Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, Feb.-April 1986 (not in cat.); Boyd Webb, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May-June 1987 (no number, repr. p.108)
‘Scott's Tent' was photographed at the artist's studio in Spitalfields in East London. The scene was constructed from materials made or bought by the artist, and a model dressed by him hung upside down from a trapeze. The artist took a 5 x 4 inch colour transparency, which he had printed professionally as a unique cibachrome… (read more)
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