Etching on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/colin-self-1922" aria-label="More by Colin Self" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Colin Self</a>
Margaret in a Chair
Purchased 1983
actions: postures and motions
adults
chair
clothing and personal items
collar
domestic
furnishings
individuals: female
interiors
living room
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
Self, Margaret
sitting
wallpaper
woman
paper print etching
Margaret in a Chair
image: 193 × 147 mm
Purchased 1983
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/self-margaret-in-a-chair-p07941" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07941</span></a> <b>Margaret in a Chair</b> 1963
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<br/>Etching 7 5/8 × 5 3/4 (193 × 147) on cream paper 14 × 11 1/2 (357 × 293), printed by the artist at the Slade School of Art in an edition of 5
<br/>Inscribed ‘Colin Self. 1963.’ b.l. and ‘Margaret in a Chair. No.1’ and ‘1/5’
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>The artist and Margaret were married in 1963 (but separated in 1974); when this <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> was made, drawn from life, he was living at 162 Ladbroke Grove. There were two <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/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> of the same subject, this, made in the winter of 1963, being the first, and the second, made in the summer, being Self's ‘Diploma of Love’; both were etched and printed at the Slade where Anthony Gross was teaching. ‘Mr Gross used to make me print on a little unused press which stood outside the etching room, since my ideas were “way out” using machine plates, which he (possibly correctly) thought might damage the posh presses. He was a very good teacher’ (this and other quotations from correspondence with the compiler, June 1986). Self made <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>paintings</span></a> of the same subject which he describes as ‘much broader’. ‘So ... the pose, clothes, and style in the way the pattern on the wallpaper is “drawn as it affects the minds eye”. Considered, whereas later works exist alone, on a “psychological pedestal” in the middle 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/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a>.’
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<br/>This entry and the following eight have 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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults chair clothing and personal items collar domestic furnishings individuals: female interiors living room named individuals objects people portraits Self, Margaret sitting wallpaper woman