Etching on paper
Tate Collection
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Anemones
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bill-jacklin-1345" aria-label="More by Bill Jacklin" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Bill Jacklin</a>
Anemones IV
Presented by the artist 1982
anemone
natural phenomena
plants and flowers
shadow
paper print etching
Anemones IV
image: 302 × 206 mm
Presented by the artist 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/jacklin-anemones-iv-p02562" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02562</span></a> [from] <b>Anemones</b> 1977 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/jacklin-anemones-i-p02559" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02559</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/jacklin-anemones-vii-p02565" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02565</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>Seven etchings 11 7/8 × 8 1/8 (302 × 206) on paper 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 (651 × 499) watermarked ‘BFK RIVES FRANCE’, printed by Michael Rand and published by the artist in an edition of 40
<br/>Each inscribed ‘Jacklin 77’ b.r. and ‘19/40’, and ‘Anemones I to VII’ respectively
<br/>Presented by the artist 1982
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<br/>This <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/portfolio" title="Glossary definition for 'Portfolio'"><span>portfolio</span></a> marks a transition in Jacklin's imagery from regular <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/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> configurations to a more <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/representational" title="Glossary definition for 'Representational'"><span>representational</span></a> vein, while at the same time commenting on his visual language by showing an image of a vase of flowers evolving into an expressive pattern of line 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>tone</span></a>. The first <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>print</span></a> shows anemones in a patterned vase on a window still with a deep shadow to the front and right of the image. Numbers ‘II’ to ‘V’ show the flower heads dying and falling onto the sill and taking on a new formal role with the shadows and with fragments of the pattern from the vase. In ‘VI’ a regular pattern is forming at the top of the image and in ‘VII’ the pattern has become the complete image though it retains the identities of the original formal components.
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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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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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anemone natural phenomena plants and flowers shadow