Richard Hamilton (b.1922)

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Richard Hamilton (b.1922)

Study for $he

signed and dated lower right Richard Hamilton 58, inscribed lower left $he, black and coloured crayon, watercolour, bodycolour, pen, brush and black ink
12¼ x 9½in. (31.2 x 24cm.)

Provenance

L.M. Asher Family, Los Angeles

Literature

R. Hamilton, Collected Words 1953-1982, London, 1982, p.34 (illustrated in colour)

Exhibited

Albeuquerque, University of New Mexico, Selections from the L.M Asher Collection, Jan.-Feb. 1964
London, Hanover Gallery, Richard Hamilton Paintings etc. '56-64,
Oct.-Nov. 1964, no.8A (illustrated)
London, Arts Council Gallery, Drawing Towards Painting 2, April-May 1967, no.6: this exhibition travelled to Stoke-on-Trent, College of Art; Northampton, Central Museum; Oldham, Art Gallery; Cardiff, Arts Council Gallery; St. Ives, Penrith Gallery; Reading, University Gallery; Liverpool, Regional College of Art; Bradford, City Art Gallery; Norwich, Castle Museum; Scarborough, Art Gallery; and Glasgow, Arts Council Gallery (June 1967-March 1968)
London, Tate Gallery, Richard Hamilton, March-April 1970, no.36 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbesmuseum, May-June 1970; and Bern, Kunsthalle, July-August 1970
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Richard Hamilton, Sept.-Nov. 1973, no.28 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to Munich, Städtische Galerie, March-May 1974; Tubingen, Kunsthalle, May-June 1974; and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, July-August 1974
Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Richard Hamilton Studies 1937-1977, April-May 1987, no.65 (illustrated): this exhibition travelled to Tubingen, Kunsthalle, May-June 1978; and Gottingen, Kunstverein, June-July 1978

Lot Essay

The finished work (Tate Gallery, London) was painted as the result of an investigation into domestic appliances for Hamilton's Independent Group lecture 'Persuading Image'. Hamilton commented that 'the worst thing that could happen to a girl, according to the ads, is that she should fail to be exquisitely at ease in her appliance setting ... Sex is everywhere, symbolised in the glamour of mass-produced luxury - the interplay of fleshy plastic and smooth, fleshier metal ... The relationship of woman and appliance is a fundamental theme of our culture'.

(see R. Morphet, Richard Hamilton, Tate Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, 1992, p.153)

Lot Essay

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