Not on display
- Artist
- David Musgrave born 1973
- Medium
- Resin and enamel paint
- Dimensions
- Object: 215 x 143 x 30 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 2012
- Reference
- T13657
Display caption
Animal is a wall-based sculpture based on the imagined anatomical structure of Charles M Schulz’s cartoon character ‘Snoopy’. The main source for this sculpture was a line drawing Musgrave made of the same subject, in which he called upon the conventions of anatomical diagrams. Musgrave commented that this work ‘conflates recognition, abstraction, the imaginary and the concrete in a single form’.
Gallery label, September 2016
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