Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-hamilton-finlay-1093" aria-label="More by Ian Hamilton Finlay" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a>
Venus Hours
Purchased 1983
abstraction
adults
Aphrodite / Venus
body
classical myths: gods and heroes
female
figure
from recognisable sources
inscriptions
non-representational
nudes
people
religion and belief
sexual organs
symbols and personifications
text
title of work
woman
paper print screenprint
Venus of the Hours
image: 749 × 368 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/finlay-venus-of-the-hours-p07934" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07934</span></a> <b>Venus of the Hours</b> 1975
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<br/>Screenprint 29 1/2 × 14 1/2 (749 × 368), printed at Girdwood and published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in an edition of about 300
<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>Made in collaboration with Ron Costley, who did the lettering - the words of the title together with a Venus sign that is both an ancient and universal pictogram for female sexuality and a shorthand symbol for the dial of a vertical sundial constitute the image.
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<br/>This and the following entries [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/phillips-canto-ii-no-title-p07625" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07625</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/chia-about-the-unseizable-p07634" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07634</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-sailing-barge-redwing-p07645" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07645</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-homage-to-agam-p07647" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07647</span></a>] have all 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
2004-07-26T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults Aphrodite / Venus body classical myths: gods and heroes female figure from recognisable sources inscriptions non-representational nudes people religion and belief sexual organs symbols and personifications text title of work woman