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Shoe Trees No.3

Print
1971 (published)
Artist/Maker
Editions Alecto Ltd. (publisher)
Self, Colin (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Etching print on paper


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleShoe Trees No.3 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
printer's ink, paper, etching
Paper
Printer's Ink
Etching
Brief description
By Colin Self: 'Shoe Trees No.3', one of eleven etchings, prelude to "1,000 Temporary Objects of our Time"
Physical description
Etching print on paper
Dimensions
    Marks and inscriptions
    Colin Self 25 Aug 1971 (Signed and dated in pencil on the back)
    Credit line
    Acquired from Editions Alecto, London in 1972.
    Production
    'This suite of eleven etchings is the prelude to a proposed
    collection of “1,000 Temporary Objects of our Time”. The
    prelude was produced in 1971, and a leaflet produced as an
    information sheet with the set quoted from the artist’s
    statement for the Sao Paolo Biennale, 1971, describing his
    interest in reproducing ‘objects’ and in the idea of a kind of
    census of images of ‘objects’.

    The images were produced by placing an object on the etching plate
    and spraying over it. When the object is removed, a clean shadow
    is left on the plate, which is then etched. Thus the shadow of the
    object becomes the inked part of the image. All are printed on
    thick white paper. Printer’s stamp on the back. The suite was
    published by Editions Alecto, 1971.'

    [Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972]
    Bibliographic reference
    Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972
    Collection
    Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
    Accession number
    CIRC.62-1972

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    Record createdJuly 1, 2009
    Record URL
    https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1106229/shoe-trees-no3-print-self-colin/
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