Etching on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/colin-self-1922" aria-label="More by Colin Self" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Colin Self</a>
Out Focus Objects and Flowers
Purchased 1983
abstraction
blur
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
flower
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
nostalgia
organic
plants and flowers
texture
paper print etching
Out of Focus Objects and Flowers
image: 280 × 251 mm
Purchased 1983
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/self-out-of-focus-objects-and-flowers-p07944" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07944</span></a> <b>Out of Focus Objects and Flowers</b> 1968
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<br/>Etching 11 × 9 7/8 (280 × 251) on paper 22 3/8 × 10 3/4 (568 × 270), printed by the artist at Editions Alecto, not editioned
<br/>Inscribed ‘Colin Self 1968’ b.r. and ‘Out of focus object and flowers’ and ‘trial proof 1/13’
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>The first <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> Self made at Editions Alecto were of flowers pressed into soft or hard grounds; ‘the out of focus is the mind blurred by some event in one's infancy which “clouds one's vision” but it happened so early one doesn't “know” what it was. The flowers are nostalgia. The past, sweetness, new hope growing.’
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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abstraction blur emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas flower formal qualities from recognisable sources nostalgia organic plants and flowers texture