Gillian Ayres OBE

Tachiste I

1956

In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

View by appointment

Artist: Gillian Ayres OBE 1930–2018
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Dimensions: Image: 546 × 376 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1986
Reference: P77156

Catalogue entry

P77156 Tachiste I 1956

Lithograph 546 × 376 (21 1/2 × 14 3/4) on wove paper, same size; printed by the artist at Hammersmith School of Art; not published; not editioned
Inscribed ‘Gillian Ayres 56’ bottom centre and ‘Gillian Ayres | Tachiste I (Red Orange) | 1956’ in another hand on back b.r.
Purchased from Redfern Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1986
Exh: British Prints of the Post-War Years 1945–1960, Redfern Gallery, Jan.–Feb. 1986 (11, repr.)

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Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996