Head Study Two
Drawing
2009 (drawn)
2009 (drawn)
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Alison Lambert (b.1957) is one of the foremost British draughtsmen of her generation. Her sustained attention to the human face and figure has produced an oeuvre of powerful and psychologically insightful drawings.
Lambert's working method is led by experiment and discovery. Her densely worked charcoal drawings are built up gradually on thick watercolour paper with accretions of fragmentary sheets, which are drawn on in turn. The resulting effect is part drawing, part low-relief sculpture. Head Study Two, although not on the monumental scale of some of Lambert's drawings, is a complex and compelling work and a powerful study of introspection.
Lambert's working method is led by experiment and discovery. Her densely worked charcoal drawings are built up gradually on thick watercolour paper with accretions of fragmentary sheets, which are drawn on in turn. The resulting effect is part drawing, part low-relief sculpture. Head Study Two, although not on the monumental scale of some of Lambert's drawings, is a complex and compelling work and a powerful study of introspection.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Head Study Two |
| Materials and techniques | Charcoal and pastel |
| Brief description | Drawing, charcoal, 'Head Study Two', by Alison Lambert, England, 2009. |
| Physical description | Charcoal study of a head, eyes downcast. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A. Lambert 2009 (Signed and dated bottom left) |
| Credit line | Purchased with the support of ING / Discerning Eye |
| Object history | 'Heady Study Two' was selected as the winner of the 2009 V&A Acquisition Prize at the ING Discerning Eye exhibition held at the Mall Galleries, London in November 2009, for which Julius Bryant, Keeper of the Word and Image Department, was one of the selectors. |
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| Summary | Alison Lambert (b.1957) is one of the foremost British draughtsmen of her generation. Her sustained attention to the human face and figure has produced an oeuvre of powerful and psychologically insightful drawings. Lambert's working method is led by experiment and discovery. Her densely worked charcoal drawings are built up gradually on thick watercolour paper with accretions of fragmentary sheets, which are drawn on in turn. The resulting effect is part drawing, part low-relief sculpture. Head Study Two, although not on the monumental scale of some of Lambert's drawings, is a complex and compelling work and a powerful study of introspection. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.197-2010 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2010 |
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