Screenprint and photograph on paper
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Roquebrune
Purchased 1981
abstraction
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
contrast
countries and continents
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
France
from recognisable sources
geometric
landscape
landscape
non-representational
photographic
places
rocky
Roquebrune
universal concepts
paper print screenprint photograph
Roquebrune
image: 816 × 1702 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07434</b> ROQUEBRUNE I 1980
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<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Photograph and screenprint, printed at The Printshop, Amsterdam, published by Art &amp; Project, Amsterdam and Multiples Inc., New York in an edition of 45, 32 1/8×67 (81.6×170.2)
<br/>Purchased from Nigel Greenwood Inc. (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>Related to ‘Roquebrune’ 1979, in which a <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> on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> and a <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> on canvas are put together in the same way, juxtaposing the ‘reality’ of photography and the ‘art’ of Van Elk's painted equivalent as two depictive methods. The photograph in both works is of rocks at Roquebrune in the South of France.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction cities, towns, villages (non-UK) contrast countries and continents emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities France from recognisable sources geometric landscape landscape non-representational photographic places rocky Roquebrune universal concepts