Oil paint and etching on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anton-heyboer-1281" aria-label="More by Anton Heyboer" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Anton Heyboer</a>
Girl Pleasure
Purchased 1981
abstraction
adults
architecture
building - non-specific
colour
diagrammatic
Dutch text
emotions, concepts and ideas
eroticism
female
formal qualities
inscriptions
non-representational
nudes
people
sex and relationships
society
symbols and personifications
townscapes / man-made features
woman
paper unique oil paint etching
Girl of Pleasure
support: 648 × 994 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07532</b> GIRL OF PLEASURE 1978
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Anton Heyboer 1978’ bottom left and bottom right, and ‘Eigendruck’
<br/>Etching with paint, printed by the artist, 25 1/2×39 1/8 (64.8×99.5)
<br/>Purchased from Galerie Espace, Amsterdam (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>Three unique <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> [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/heyboer-maria-p07531" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07531</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/heyboer-girl-of-pleasure-p07532" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07532</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/heyboer-four-women-p07533" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07533</span></a>] from industrial zinc sheets made with colours mixed from soil, lead oxide (for red) and raw oil. Heyboer uses a tar ground and draws through it or scratches directly into the plate. He often adds paint, finger prints and small stamp impressions to the printed image. His imagery includes symbols and ideograms of his extraordinary life - he lives with four women in his own rural community.
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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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults architecture building - non-specific colour diagrammatic Dutch text emotions, concepts and ideas eroticism female formal qualities inscriptions non-representational nudes people sex and relationships society symbols and personifications townscapes / man-made features woman