Fashion-plate (L. 76)

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Richard Hamilton
Fashion-plate (L. 76)
offset lithograph, screenprint and pochoir in colours with collage, retouched with cosmetics by the artist, 1969-70, on Fabriano wove paper, dedicated Ernie's proof from Richard, one of seven artist's proofs aside from the edition of 70, published by Professional Prints A.G., Zug (Petersburg Press S.A.), the full sheet, occasional pale foxing mainly in the lower and upper margins, otherwise in very good condition
I. 748 x 604 mm., S. 993 x 690 mm.

来源

Given by the artist to the printer Ernest Donagh (1941 - 2007). Then by descent to the present owners.

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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Richard Hamilton's interest in the artificial and cosmetic language of contemporary popular culture towards the end of the 1960s lead him to create Fashion Plates, a series of twelve collaged paintings made in 1969, and the present work, made the following year. They were all created against the same background, a black and white photograph of a photographic studio belonging to his friend, Tony Evans. Using photographs taken from Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Queen, as well as paint or even make-up, Hamilton constructed a sequence of images displaying a variety of fashion styles. His piece-by-piece assemblage, coming into being within the spot-lit white void at the centre of the empty photographic studio, mirrored the process of construction that goes into the creation of magazine covers. Hamilton's use of partial and disparate images not only revealed the artifice and manufactured nature of the image, but also created a newer, more powerful, striking and perhaps truer fashion image - one that is pure style and cosmetic surface, far removed from its starting point.