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Head and Bones
Purchased 1982
abstraction
animals: features
animals: mammals
bone
figure
from recognisable sources
head
horse
paper print woodcut
Head and Bones
image: 330 × 286 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rothenberg-head-and-bones-p07740" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07740</span></a> <b>Head and Bones</b> 1980
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<br/>Woodcut 13 × 11 1/4 (330 × 286) on paper 26 × 18 7/8 (659 × 480) watermarked ‘RIVES’; printed by Gretchen Gelb at Aeropress, New York, published by Multiples Inc., New York, in an edition of 20
<br/>Inscribed ‘S Rothenberg 80’ b.r. and ‘12/20’; impressed with the printer's and publisher's stamps
<br/>Purchased from Multiples Inc. (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Susan Rothenberg Prints 1977–1984, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, March 1984, no.7, repr.
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<br/>This woodcut is from a group of four, Rothenberg's first editioned <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/woodcut" title="Glossary definition for 'Woodcut'"><span>woodcuts</span></a>, all made in 1980 with Gretchen Gelb at Patricia Branstead's Aeropress studio for the publisher Marion Goodman of Multiples. In the spring of that year Rothenberg had made four series, each of between three and six varying impressions, of unique woodcuts using pine blocks and she had previously made a set of fifteen variations on a single oak block. The image is closely related to Rothenberg's <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>, in which she had developed the use of a heavily outlined horse into the use of fragments of the same kind of figures - in this case a head and two vertical leg bones, with other less specific but equally resonant bone-like forms.
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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 animals: features animals: mammals bone figure from recognisable sources head horse