Lithograph on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/prunella-clough-921" aria-label="More by Prunella Clough" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Prunella Clough</a>
Float
Purchased 1984
abstraction
buoy
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
man-made
society
texture
transport: water
paper print lithograph
13 May 2013 – 5 May 2015
2015-05-05
13 May 2013 – 5 May 2015
2015-05-05
2013-05-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-13
Gallery 39
Collection based display
Float
image: 168 × 114 mm
Purchased 1984
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clough-float-p07909" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07909</span></a> <b>Float</b> 1950
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<br/>Lithograph 6 3/4×4 1/2 (170 × 116) from one stone, printed by the artist (not editioned)
<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1984
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<br/>These three <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>lithographs</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/clough-geological-landscape-p07906" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07906</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/clough-can-and-basket-p07907" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07907</span></a>, <span>P07909</span>]were printed by Clough in her own studio where she had a lithography press set up. She did not make <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/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>editions</span></a> but printed five or ten copies of each image. She used stones, sometimes <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> on them directly and sometimes using transfer <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>, treating 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/m/medium" title="Glossary definition for 'Medium'"><span>medium</span></a> as experimental and exploring textures 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/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tonal</span></a> effects similar to those she was using in drawings, in which line and tone and rubbed textures like <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/frottage" title="Glossary definition for 'Frottage'"><span>frottages</span></a> were combined. ‘Geological <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/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a>’ is a relatively direct landscape image while in ‘Float’ an object like an improvised marker buoy with cork lashed to its post refers indirectly to the same kind of scene: Clough uses landscape as a source of visual ideas brought together from often fragmentary sensory memmories, incorporating natural forms with the weathered detritus of industrial buildings, machinery, streets and derelict urban vistas. In ‘Can and Basket’ she explores the differing shapes and contours of the two objects.
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<br/>This and the following entries have been approved by the artist.
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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
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction buoy emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities from recognisable sources man-made society texture transport: water