'The Red Lamp', 1985

Details

ALLEN JONES (B. 1937)
'The Red Lamp', 1985
for Aram Designs Ltd, London, UK, from the edition of 4, reinforced glass-fibre resin, with hand-painted motif, silkscreen-printed paper shade
74 ¾ high x 26 ¾ in. diameter (190 x 68 cm.)

Literature

'Artisans: Allen Jones', Sunday Times, April 1987, another example illustrated.

Exhibited

AD 23 Collection, Aram Designs Ltd., London, 7 April-22 May 1987.

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Lot Essay

"In 1964, Joan Miro visited my studio in Wandsworth Common and complimented me on a painting that incidentally had been inspired by one of his own works that I had recently seen in the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In both cases a large vertical gesture of red paint was the central motif - a mark that became identified, for me, with the 'Life Force'.
This can be traced in various disguises throughout my work sometimes with female attributes, sometimes as a spear or spermatoza and even as my nose! The painting of 1984 was called Figure Falling (Wallraf Richartz Museum Cologne). In a sense the lamp I have designed for Aram stands this idea on its head." Allen Jones

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