Screenprint on paper
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Presented by the artist 1986
abstraction
colour
geometric
non-representational
paper print screenprint
Untitled
image: 378 × 210 mm
Presented by the artist 1986
<p><b>Warren MacKenzie</b><span> born 1924 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mackenzie-untitled-p02944" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02944</span></a> </span><b>Untitled</b><span>
1951 </span>
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<p><span>Screenprint 378 x 210 (14 7/8 x 8 1/4) on wove paper 506 x 279 (19 7/8 x 11); printed by the artist in an edition of 20 </span>
<br/><span>Inscribed ‘W.MacKenzie ‘51' below image b.r. and ‘6/20' below image b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Presented by Warren MacKenzie 1986 </span>
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<p><span>The three works, </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P02942" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P02942');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P02942</span></a><span>, </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P02943" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P02943');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P02943</span></a><span>
and <span>P02944</span> were made by the artist for the </span><i><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> under £1</i><span>
exhibition at Robin Nance's shop, St Ives in December 1951 (see entries for Alix MacKenzie </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11096" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11096');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11096</span></a><span>, </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11097" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11097');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11097</span></a><span>
and </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11098" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11098');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11098</span></a><span>). They are in the non-objective style that Warren MacKenzie adopted in 1945, showing the influence of Mondrian. </span>
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<p><span>In a letter to the compiler postmarked 25 November 1987, MacKenzie wrote: </span>
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<blockquote><span>All of these prints were made at St Ives as the result of Peter Lanyon asking me to teach him to silk screen. He was looking for a process that did not need the elaborate presses etc. of <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>etching</span></a> 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/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithography</span></a>. I knew silk screening from school and my army work and we set up a studio in the space above what was then the Leach Pottery showroom (now Janet Leach's studio). </span>
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<p><span>These entries have been approved by the artist. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84</i><span>, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.410</span>
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abstraction colour geometric non-representational