Gouache and etching on paper
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Those  Plants
Purchased 1981
adults
architecture
domestic
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
figure
formal qualities
interior - non-specific
interiors
people
plant
plants and flowers
silhouette
window
paper unique gouache etching
Those ... Plants
support: 822 × 1041 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07508</b> THOSE ... PLANTS 1980
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<br/>Inscribed ‘HH 80’ bottom centre and ‘50/ 100’
<br/>Etching with hand-colouring, printed and published by Petersburg Press, 32 3/8×41 (82.4×104.2)
<br/>Purchased from Petersburg Press (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>Soft-ground <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> printed in sepia on <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> hand-coloured with yellow <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a>, with additional hand-coloured green bands over the two top corners. The silhouette of a figure in an interior appears in 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/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> and ‘Artist and Model’. The artist first titled this image ‘Those Fucking Plants’ but this was amended with euphemistic dots.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults architecture domestic emotions, concepts and ideas features figure formal qualities interior - non-specific interiors people plant plants and flowers silhouette window