
Not on display
- Artist
- Peter Lanyon 1918–1964
- Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 265 × 247 mm
frame: 424 × 439 × 39 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Warren MacKenzie 1985
- Reference
- P11082
Catalogue entry
Peter Lanyon 1918-64
P11082 Underground
1951
Screenprint on machine-made paper 265 x 247 (10 3/8 x 9 3/4); printed by the artist and Warren MacKenzie in an edition of 8
Inscribed on back at centre ‘Underground from Peter to Alix + Warren New Year 1952'
Presented by Warren MacKenzie 1985
Warren MacKenzie, who was present at the making of this print, has written in a letter to the Tate Gallery postmarked 25 November 1987:
This was the first silk screen print Peter made. We gathered at Bernard Leach's cottage where my wife Alix & I were living to teach interested St Ives artists the seriograph techniques. Peter experimented and when he was unhappy with the first results took turps and washed [the] first printings off the paper leaving only a stain. He liked this and overprinted several other screens to complete the print. After discovering this wash off technique he used it in his second print ‘In the Trees'.
MacKenzie recalls that he acquired both prints shortly after they had been exhibited in a local gallery in St Ives in December 1951 (see also entries for Patrick Hayman P11094
and P11095, Alix MacKenzie P11096, P11097
and P11098, Warren MacKenzie P02942, P02943
and P02944
and John Wells P77131).
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.403
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