Etching and aquatint on paper
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May 2
Presented in memory of Louise Bernbaum by her American friends through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1988
abstraction
animals: mammals
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
gestural
horse
irregular forms
non-representational
paper print etching aquatint
17 July 2017 – 15 July 2018
2018-07-15
17 July 2017 – 15 July 2018
2018-07-15
2017-07-17
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2017-07-17
Susan Rothenberg
Collection based display
Untitled (May No. 2)
image: 350 × 300 mm
Presented in memory of Louise Bernbaum by her American friends through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1988
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rothenberg-untitled-may-no-2-p11203" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P11203</span></a> <b>Untitled (May no.2)</b> 1979
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<br/>Soft ground, sugar lift, aquatint, spit-bite, scraping and burnishing 350 × 300 (13 3/4 × 11 3/4) on Fabriano etching paper 752 × 555 (29 1/2 × 22); plate-mark 350 × 300 (13 3/4 × 11 3/4); printed by Gretchen Gelb and Peter Drake at Aeropress, New York and published by Parasol Press, New York in an edition of 45
<br/>Inscribed ‘S. Rothenberg 1979 May 2 32/45’ up left hand side of image
<br/>Presented in memory of Louise Bernbaum by her American friends through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1988
<br/><i>Lit:</i> ‘Prints &amp; Photographs Published’, <i>Print Collector's Newsletter</i>, vol.10, Jan.–Feb. 1980, p.203, as ‘#2’; Jeremy Lewison, ‘Form &amp; Expression in Susan Rothenberg's Prints’ in <i>Susan Rothenberg: The Prints,</i> Philadelphia 1987, pp.9–11; Rachael Robertson Maxwell, ‘A Catalogue Raisonné’ in <i>Susan Rothenberg: The Prints,</i> Philadelphia 1987, no.4, p.37, repr. p.36 in col. (unspecified impression); Wendy Weitman, ‘Susan Rothenberg: Painter as Etcher’ in <i>Susan Rothenberg: The Prints,</i> Philadelphia 1987, p.19; <i>Friends of the Tate Gallery Report 1987 – 8</i>, 1988, p.18, repr. <i>Also repr: Susan Rothenberg Prints 1977–1984</i>, exh. cat., Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston 1984, no.3 (unspecified impression); <i>Contemporary Prints</i>, sale cat., Sotheby's, New York, 14 Nov. 1987, lot 856
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i> <i>1986-88</i>, London 1996
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2004-07-28T00:00:00
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abstraction animals: mammals emotions, concepts and ideas figure formal qualities from recognisable sources gestural horse irregular forms non-representational