Lithograph on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-ruscha-1882" aria-label="More by Edward Ruscha" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Ruscha</a>
Roughly 92 Angel but about 8 Devil
Purchased 1983
abstraction
emotions, concepts and ideas
good and evil
humour
non-representational
text
universal concepts
paper print lithograph
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Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2012-04-20
Marianne Faithfull and John Dunbar
Collection based display
Roughly 92% Angel but about 8% Devil
image: 368 × 388 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/ruscha-roughly-92-angel-but-about-8-devil-p07940" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07940</span></a> <b>Roughly 92% Angel but about 8% Devil</b> 1982
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<br/>Softground etching 14 1/2 × 15 1/4 (368 × 388) on Somerset paper 24 3/8 × 22 1/2 (618 × 572), printed by Peter Pettengill at Crown Point Press Oakland, California and published by them in an edition of 25
<br/>Inscribed ‘Ed Ruscha 82’ b.r. and ‘6/25’; impressed with the printer's stamp
<br/>Purchased from Crown Point Press, (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>From the early 1970s Ruscha was making <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and <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 single words or short phrases placed against soft unmodulated backgrounds, which took on paradoxical resonance in isolation from their mundane contexts. 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/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> is printed from two plates, the second half of the title text being superimposed on the first.
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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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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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abstraction emotions, concepts and ideas good and evil humour non-representational text universal concepts