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- Carel Visser 1928–2015
- Part of
- Untitled
- Medium
- Woodcut on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 622 × 933 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1981
- Reference
- P07436
Catalogue entry
P07436 [from] UNTITLED 1979 [P07435-P07442; complete]
Each inscribed ‘Carel Visser 1979’ bottom centre and ‘5–20’
Eight woodcuts, printed at The Printshop, Amsterdam and published by Art & Project, Amsterdam with de Vries and Roeloff Gallery, Rotterdam, each approx. 24 1/2×36 3/4 (62.2×93.4)
Purchased from Nigel Greenwood (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
Wood block impressions in yellow or pale buff on very fine Japanese paper. Six are composed of bars or rectangles and two are composed of lines of small round block impressions. One of the concerns evident in Visser's sculpture - the combination of fragility with solid strength - is expressed graphically by the heavy grain of the wood against the paper surface.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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