JOE TILSON R.A. (BRITISH B.1928) §
ALCHERA - 1970-74
£360
Auction: 18 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed and dated 1975 and numbered 55/100 in pencil, inscribed 'for John and Astrid with love', screenprint
Dimensions
99cm x 69cm (39in x 27in)
Footnote
Note:
The Pop Art movement in Britain set the tone for the visual language of the Swinging Sixties. What was to become Pop, christened apparently by the art critic Lawrence Alloway, emerged from the hugely influential Independent Group which had evolved around the ICA in London in the mid 1950s.
Almost contemporary with the Hockney is a work by Joe Tilson from 1968. Tilson's early work had been in a realist style but quickly moved to abstraction and by the early 1960s had began to produce pieces in brightly coloured wood remininscent of childrens' toys. Tilson's screenprints often transform this imagery into a two-dimensional format or provide a commentary to his oeuvre.