Etching and aquatint on paper
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Running Boy with Strange Fingers
Purchased 1982
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paper print etching aquatint
Running Boy with Strange Fingers
image: 650 × 400 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/chia-running-boy-with-strange-fingers-p07637" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07637</span></a> <b>Running Boy with Strange Fingers</b> 1981
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<br/>Etching and aquatint 25 1/2 × 19 1/4 (650 × 490) on paper 39 1/4×27 1/2 (993 × 700), printed by the artist (proof before the edition)
<br/>Inscribed ‘Sandro Chia 1981’ b.r. and ‘prova d'artista’<br/>Purchased from Anthony d'Offay Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
<br/><i>Repr</i>: An Exhibition and Sale. Sandro Chia Prints 1973–1984, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September–October 1984, p.40 (editioned example)
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<br/>This is a trial <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proof" title="Glossary definition for 'Proof'"><span>proof</span></a> printed in sepia by Chia in his studio outside Rome prior to the publication in 1982 of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> of 40 by Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich. The edition was printed in black by Studio Santa Reparta, Florence. In addition there were five artist's proofs and one ‘bon à tirer’. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> is almost a mirror image of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> entitled ‘Fingers Crossed’ 1981 (private collection, Washington, D.C.). In its proof stages the print has also been known as ‘Man Running’ and ‘Back and Ground’. According to Chia this work and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/chia-the-butcher-p07638" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07638</span></a> ‘are different responses towards the cruelty that sometimes occurs within the world of art’ (written answers). It is to some extent autobiographical.
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<br/>This entry has been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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actions: postures and motions back body boy children deformity diseases and conditions emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas hand people running victim