Not on display
- Artist
- Alan Davie 1920–2014
- Medium
- Monotype on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 249 × 403 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1989
- Reference
- P77279
Display caption
Influenced by the Surrealists, Davie would make prints by sandwiching ink between a pane of glass and a sheet of paper, and scratching the paper with his fingers. The image only became visible once the sheet was lifted. Davie was enthusiastic about this chance element, writing: 'I have discovered so much and developed so rapidly ¿ My work is something very strange'. His poetic titles relate this strange imagery to the natural world.
Gallery label, August 2004
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