Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Rose and Chris Prater
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/hans-landsaat-1464" aria-label="More by Hans Landsaat" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Hans Landsaat</a>
Blue Still Life
Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1980
abstraction
colour
from recognisable sources
geometric
irregular forms
man-made
non-representational
paper print screenprint
Blue Still Life
image: 729 × 808 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999979" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Rose and Chris Prater</a> through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1980
<p><b>P05552</b> BLUE STILL LIFE 1980</p>
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<p>Both inscribed ‘Landsaat 80’ bottom right and ‘proefdruk’
<br/>Two screenprints [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/landsaat-blue-still-life-p05552" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P05552</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/landsaat-red-still-life-p05553" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P05553</span></a>] printed at Kelpra Studio and published by Asselijn-Amsterdam, each 28 3/4×31 3/4 (72.9×80.8)
<br/>Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1980
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<br/>Landsaat takes his working sketches 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/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> through a process of refinement, simplification and spatial reduction to a flat configuration which he then draws in <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/pen-and-ink" title="Glossary definition for 'Pen and Ink'"><span>pen and ink</span></a>, with separate colour notes in preparation for making 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/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprint</span></a>. He first worked with Chris Prater at Kelpra in 1977 and has worked there each year until 1980: these two [<span>P05552</span>-<span>P05553</span>] were the last <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> he made there.
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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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction colour from recognisable sources geometric irregular forms man-made non-representational