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Usuyuki
Purchased 1980
abstraction
colour
geometric
non-representational
snow
weather
paper print lithograph
Usuyuki
image: 695 × 1124 mm
Purchased 1980
<p><b>P07399</b> USUYUKI 1979
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<br/>Inscribed ‘J Johns 79’ bottom right and ‘25/ 49’
<br/>Lithograph, printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, New York, 27 3/4×44 3/4 (69.5×112.3)
<br/>Purchased from Universal Limited Art Editions (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>One of a group of works of the same title. 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> is related to 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> ‘Usuyuki’ 1977–8 (encaustic 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/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collage</span></a>); it is in three <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/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panels</span></a>, each divided by two verticals and two horizontals (i.e. into ninths). Besides the ‘hatching’ image, here in soft tusche strokes, this print contains a spectrum colour blend line (like that in ‘Decoy’) which would be continuous but is laid in section across each panel (starting at upper left and finishing at lower right). Other traceable concomitants are that each panel would curl into a continuous cylinder and that the bottom right two-ninths of the left and centre panels correspond to the upper left two-ninths of the centre and right hand panels respectively, implying a larger ‘unseen’ or overlapped area blended into the overall image.
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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 colour geometric non-representational snow weather