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Glacial Decoy Lithograph IV
Purchased 1981
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paper print lithograph
Glacial Decoy Series (Lithograph IV)
image: 1680 × 1022 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07445</b> [from] GLACIAL DECOY SERIES (LITHOGRAPH IV) 1980 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rauschenberg-glacial-decoy-series-lithograph-i-p07381" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07381</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/rauschenberg-glacial-decoy-series-lithograph-iv-p07445" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07445</span></a>]
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<br/>Inscribed ‘Rauschenberg 80’ bottom centre and ‘21/25’
<br/>Lithograph, printed and published by Universal Limited Art Editions, 66 1/4×40 1/4 (168×102.2)
<br/>Purchased from Universal Limited Art Editions (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>In 1979 Rauschenberg was making a set of six <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/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> (the first he ever made) at ULAE, collectively titled ‘The Glacial Decoy Series’, using his own <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> photoetched and printed in sharp, cool colours. While that set was in preparation (it was finished in 1982), he made four related <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>, much larger than the etchings, with brighter colours and a broader, more expansive overall image. He used similarly clear monotone printing, with the images sometimes reversed and doubled, from his own photographs.
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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 architecture causeway ceiling clothing and personal items colour domestic emotions, concepts and ideas features formal qualities miscellaneous non-representational objects photographic tap texture tin can towel townscapes / man-made features vessels and containers wall washing line