Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-christie-904" aria-label="More by John Christie" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Christie</a>
Dancers I
Purchased 1981
abstraction
animals: features
cloud
dance
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
feather
formal qualities
inscriptions
irregular forms
landscape
leisure and pastimes
letter of alphabet
music and entertainment
non-representational
notes and diagrams
photographic
sky
symbols and personifications
weather
paper print screenprint
Dancers No. I
image: 205 × 155 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07529</b> DANCERS NO.1 1980
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<br/>Inscribed ‘John Christie Oct 80’ bottom right and ‘Dancers No.1’ and ‘3/50’
<br/>Screenprint, printed and published by the artist, 8 1/8×6 1/8 (20.5×15.5)
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>Of this and a second <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>, ‘Dancers No. 2’, the artist wrote: ‘Both these prints were produced using screens and additional material from the book “Between the Dancers”, a sequence of 10 poems by Ken Smith accompanied by six of my <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprints</span></a> and published by Circle Press, Guildford at Christmas 1980. The images are based primarily on dance patterns.’ (loc.cit.)
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction animals: features cloud dance diagrammatic emotions, concepts and ideas feather formal qualities inscriptions irregular forms landscape leisure and pastimes letter of alphabet music and entertainment non-representational notes and diagrams photographic sky symbols and personifications weather