Letterpress print on paper
Tate Collection
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[no title, portfolio of six letter press prints]
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/glen-baxter-709" aria-label="More by Glen Baxter" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Glen Baxter</a>
Twins Introduced Imposter
Purchased 1982
actions: expressive
adults
body
caption
cartoon / comic strip
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
formal qualities
humour
inscriptions
man
moustache
people
pointing
society
symbols and personifications
twins
universal concepts
paper print letterpress
The Twins Introduced the Imposter
image: 117 × 125 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><b>P07607</b> [from] UNTITLED PORTFOLIO 1978 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/baxter-it-was-hendersons-sixth-attempt-at-lasagne-p07604" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07604</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/baxter-to-my-mind-theres-no-finer-sight-than-kale-moving-at-speed-opined-millward-p07609" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07609</span></a>; complete]</p>
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<br/>All inscribed ‘Glen Baxter 78’ bottom right and ‘31/75’</p>
<p>Six letterpress prints, printed at Ithaca Press, published by Anthony Stokes, in range 4×4 7/8-4 1/4×6 1/4 (10×12.5–10.7×16)
<br/>Purchased from Anthony Stokes (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>Baxter's <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> are taken from original <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>drawings</span></a> and published in limited <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>edition</span></a>, postcard and book form. ‘The twins introduced the imposter’ was also published as a postcard by Anthony Stokes in 1980. ‘To me the window is still a symbolically loaded motif drawled Cody’ was also published as a postcard by Anthony Stokes (1980) and in The Impending Gleam, a book of Baxter's work published by Jonathan Cape (1981).
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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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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults body caption cartoon / comic strip emotions, concepts and ideas family formal qualities humour inscriptions man moustache people pointing society symbols and personifications twins universal concepts