Not on display
- Artist
- Karin Jonzen 1914–1998
- Medium
- Terracotta on wooden base
- Dimensions
- Object: 160 x 100 x 140 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1983
- Reference
- T03755
Catalogue entry
T03755 Head of a Youth c.1947–8
Terracotta 6 1/4 × 4 × 5 1/2 (160 × 100 × 140)
Inscribed ‘KJ’ on back of neck
Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1983
Prov: Purchased from the artist by Sir Edward Marsh and given by him to the Contemporary Art Society, and by them given to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1964 (Circ.95–1964)
Exh: Travelling exhibitions of Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum
The artist wrote (2 August 1984) that no casts were made from this terracotta, and that it was an imaginary head.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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