I'm dreaming of a black Christmas (Lullin 82)

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Richard Hamilton (B. 1922)
I'm dreaming of a black Christmas (Lullin 82)
screenprint on collotype with collage, 1971, on Schoeller ivory card, signed in pencil, numbered 59/150 (there were also 15 artist's proofs), published by Professional Prints A.G., Zug (Petersburg Press S.A.), with wide margins, the sheet slightly reduced, a pale stain in the lower margin, occasional pinpoint foxing, generally in very good condition, framed
I. 570 x 790 mm., S. 705 x 980 mm.

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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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This image is based on a 70 mm. colour negative from the film White Christmas, showing Bing Crosby walking through a hotel lobby. Beginning in 1967, Hamilton explored the theme in two prints and a painting, all of which mimicked the colour reversal of the original. Shortly after making the print, Hamilton wrote that it was 'a return of the subject to positive. When the major piece of the group (a large painting) was completed I had it photographed and from that large transparency a colour negative was made, with some difficulty. The painting itself is in negative, so a negative of the painting becomes positive. This positive/negative has been printed, by collotype, to the same size as the silkscreen print of the subject (for which I regard the collotype as a companion piece) with many silkscreen workings on top in simulation of graphic manipulation.'