Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Drawing Boards II
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-smith-1959" aria-label="More by Richard Smith" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Richard Smith</a>
Purchased 1981
abstraction
geometric
non-representational
paper print etching
[no title]
image: 542 × 340 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07511</b> [from] DRAWING BOARDS (CHINE COLLÉ) 1981 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/smith-no-title-p07511" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07511</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/smith-no-title-p07512" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07512</span></a>; incomplete]
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<br/>Both inscribed ‘R. Smith 81’ bottom right and ‘5/30’
<br/>Two etchings with collaged paper, printed at Aeropress, New York, published by Bernard Jacobson, P 07511 21 3/8×13 3/8 (54.2×34), P 07512 17 3/4×14 5/8 (45×37.2)
<br/>Purchased from Bernard Jacobson (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>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/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> from each of two sets of five [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/smith-no-title-p07509" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07509</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/smith-no-title-p07510" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07510</span></a> and <span>P07511</span>-<span>P07512</span>]. Smith made both sets at Aeropress, using the plates made for the colour set in 1980 for a black set in the following year. In the second set 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/a/aquatint" title="Glossary definition for 'Aquatint'"><span>aquatint</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tone</span></a> base is replaced by <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>collaged</span></a> buff-coloured, flecked rice <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/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a>.
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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 geometric non-representational