Terry Atkinson (British 1939-) §
The Stone Touchers 1 Art from the Bunker 4, 1985
£2,772
Auction: 27 October 2023 from 11:00 BST
Description
acrylic on board
Dimensions
121cm x 90cm (47 1/2in x 35 1/2in)
Provenance
Provenance
Gimpel Fils, London.
Exhibited
Gimpel Fils, London, T. A. Art for the Bunker, April 1985;
Tate Gallery, London, Turner Prize, 1985;
Stampa, Basel, 10 February - 28 March 1987;
Arts Council of Great Britain, Innocence and Experience: Images of Children in British Art from 1600 to the Present, touring exhibition to Manchester City Art Gallery, Hull, Nottingham and Glasgow, 1992-93;
Touchstones, Rochdale, A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s, 4 February - 7 May 2023.
Footnote
In this painting based on a holiday snapshot, Atkinson's daughters pose in a First World War cemetery. This juxtaposition links the personal and subjective with wider political and historical issues. The title perhaps refers to the girls' place in a historical continuum which stretches from the death of a young soldier in 1916 to their nuclear-age future.