Lithograph on paper
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Blue Moon
Purchased 1983
abstraction
astronomy
from recognisable sources
landscape
landscape
moon
night
sky
times of the day
paper print lithograph
Blue Moon
image: 355 × 273 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/frost-blue-moon-p07981" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07981</span></a> <b>Blue Moon</b> 1952
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<br/>Lithograph with linocut 14 × 10 7/8 (355 × 273) on paper 20 × 15 (508 × 380), printed by the artist and Henry Cliffe at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, not editioned
<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>This and the following entries are based upon information suppled by the artist, in answer to questions posed by the compiler, in August 1985 and on 16 April 1986.
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<br/>Although ‘Blue Moon’ was 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>print</span></a> Frost made available for purchase it was not his first print. He had previously made <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/woodcut" title="Glossary definition for 'Woodcut'"><span>woodcuts</span></a> during the Second World War, while imprisoned in a camp, and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a> at Camberwell School of Art. The print was originally envisaged as a lithograph but Frost decided to introduce <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/linocut" title="Glossary definition for 'Linocut'"><span>linocut</span></a> when ‘it became difficult to obtain a welcome in the litho. dept. at Corsham’.
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<br/>This entry has been approved by the artist.
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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 astronomy from recognisable sources landscape landscape moon night sky times of the day