Etching on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/francesco-clemente-917" aria-label="More by Francesco Clemente" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Francesco Clemente</a>
Seascape
Purchased 1983
abstraction
adults
bottle
cigarette lighter
clothing and personal items
crab cracker
cup / mug
figure
figure
figure
from recognisable sources
jar
kitchen
man-made
nudes
objects
people
scissors
spoon
tools and machinery
vessels and containers
paper print etching
Seascape
image: 619 × 470 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/clemente-seascape-p07904" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07904</span></a> <b>Seascape</b> 1981
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<br/>Softground etching from two plates 24 3/8×18 1/2 (619 × 470) on handmade paper watermarked ‘F’, printed by Hidekatsu Takada at Crown Point Press, Oakland, California, published by them in an edition of 10
<br/>Inscribed ‘Francesco Clemente’ bottom centre and ‘6/10’; impressed with the printer's and publisher's stamp
<br/>Purchased from Crown Point Press (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>These two <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>etchings</span></a> [<span>P07904</span> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clemente-self-portrait-no-6-stoplight-p07905" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07905</span></a>] are from a group of 21 made at Kathan Brown's Crown Point Press studio in California; they were Clemente's first etchings. The group included six self <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> and three large <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>prints</span></a> in a vertical, banner-like format. Clemente drew directly on the plates, working from one point in the image outwards, not standing back to consider or correcting his <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>drawing</span></a>, but pursuing an intuitive form of expression. In <span>P07904</span> he used a large plate (the plate mark being beyond the edge of the sheet) with a small rectangular plate at the centre. Clemente's imagery is autobiographical, from the mundane details of daily life to the central core of his physical and sexual persona; his pantheistic, pan-cultural outlook is frequently concentrated into images of his own face and body with imagery drawn from Hindu or Tantric art, as in <span>P07905</span> where his hands are placed palms outwards in a classic Hindu gesture.
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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
2004-10-13T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults bottle cigarette lighter clothing and personal items crab cracker cup / mug figure figure figure from recognisable sources jar kitchen man-made nudes objects people scissors spoon tools and machinery vessels and containers