- Artist
- Charles Hardaker born 1934
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1215 × 912 × 20 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1966
- Reference
- T00861
Catalogue entry
Charles Ernest Hardaker b.1934
T00861 Still Life: Vertical Structures, Three Times Three 1965
Inscr.‘Hardaker’b.l.
Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 (122 x 91.5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1966.
Exh. R.A., 1966 (871).
The artist wrote (19 March 1967): ‘it forms part of a series on a theme (or rather, multiple themes) which is still developing and looks like doing so for some time. There are about 10 more on this theme in my place at present. Motives for the paintings in general (as much as one dare to define them I) are architectural and philosophical in that the basically cubic container form has been connected with the cube/earth symbol in Plato’s Timaeus. But also “things as they are” is as important as any intellectual idea so that the paintings retain strong roots in things seen.’
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1966–1967, London 1967.
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