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- Colin Self born 1941
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 193 × 147 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1983
- Reference
- P07941
Catalogue entry
P07941 Margaret in a Chair 1963
Etching 7 5/8 × 5 3/4 (193 × 147) on cream paper 14 × 11 1/2 (357 × 293), printed by the artist at the Slade School of Art in an edition of 5
Inscribed ‘Colin Self. 1963.’ b.l. and ‘Margaret in a Chair. No.1’ and ‘1/5’
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
The artist and Margaret were married in 1963 (but separated in 1974); when this print was made, drawn from life, he was living at 162 Ladbroke Grove. There were two etchings of the same subject, this, made in the winter of 1963, being the first, and the second, made in the summer, being Self's ‘Diploma of Love’; both were etched and printed at the Slade where Anthony Gross was teaching. ‘Mr Gross used to make me print on a little unused press which stood outside the etching room, since my ideas were “way out” using machine plates, which he (possibly correctly) thought might damage the posh presses. He was a very good teacher’ (this and other quotations from correspondence with the compiler, June 1986). Self made paintings of the same subject which he describes as ‘much broader’. ‘So ... the pose, clothes, and style in the way the pattern on the wallpaper is “drawn as it affects the minds eye”. Considered, whereas later works exist alone, on a “psychological pedestal” in the middle of the paper.’
This entry and the following eight have been approved by the artist.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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