In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Colin Self born 1941
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 188 x 311 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1983
- Reference
- P07945
Catalogue entry
P07945 Picasso's Guernica and the Nazis 1968
Lithograph with red biro 7 3/8 × 12 1/4 (188 × 311), printed by the artist at Editions Alecto, not editioned
Inscribed ‘C.S. 1968’ b.l. and ‘Picasso's Guernica and the Nazis’ and ‘Lithotrial 2 1/3’
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
The swastika badges were rubbings taken from a ring and transferred onto the stone. There are only two or three works on this theme, each with a different ‘Picasso Forgery’ drawn in ink, to ‘bring out one of the “whys” of his art’.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
Features
Guernica... In a car showroom?
Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain III
Explore
- history(5,751)
- politics and society(2,316)
- people(35,247)
- body(4,798)
- blood(55)
- head / face(2,472)
- adults(22,958)
- figure(6,901)
- actions: expressive(2,617)
- screaming(29)
- diseases and conditions(1,498)
- body(4,798)
- society(34,891)
- social comment(6,449)
- war(349)
- social comment(6,449)
- symbols & personifications(7,227)
- inscriptions(6,737)
- name of artist(201)
- politics(35)
- inscriptions(6,737)
- objects(23,037)
You might like
Colin Self Shoe Trees
1970–1
Colin Self Willow
1970–1
Colin Self Prelude
1968
Colin Self Spaghetti
1970–1