Woodcut on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/carel-visser-2108" aria-label="More by Carel Visser" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Carel Visser</a>
Purchased 1981
abstraction
geometric
non-representational
paper print woodcut
[title not known]
image: 622 × 933 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07438</b> [from] UNTITLED 1979 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/visser-title-not-known-p07435" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07435</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/visser-title-not-known-p07442" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07442</span></a>; complete]
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<br/>Each inscribed ‘Carel Visser 1979’ bottom centre and ‘5–20’
<br/>Eight woodcuts, printed at The Printshop, Amsterdam and published by Art &amp; Project, Amsterdam with de Vries and Roeloff Gallery, Rotterdam, each approx. 24 1/2×36 3/4 (62.2×93.4)
<br/>Purchased from Nigel Greenwood (Grant-in-Aid) 1980
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<br/>Wood block impressions in yellow or pale buff on very fine Japanese <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>. Six are composed of bars or rectangles and two are composed of lines of small round block impressions. One of the concerns evident in Visser'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/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> - the combination of fragility with solid strength - is expressed graphically by the heavy grain of the wood against the paper surface.
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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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abstraction geometric non-representational