The Fall

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Artist/Maker	Mooney, Jim (artist)
Place of origin	United Kingdom (made)

Jim Mooney is currently teaching at the Royal College of Art. His watercolour, an relatively early work, shows eroticised, possibly mythic, figures in a landscape, prefiguring the themes of his later work, which foreground ideas about touch and intimacy.

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Drawing
Title	The Fall (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour on paper Watercolour Paper
Brief description	'The Fall', watercolour on paper by Jim Mooney, probably United Kingdom, 1984
Physical description	A dream-like vision in which several naked figures are entwined in the foreground and above (the same?) figures are shown falling to earth, with mountains and a building behind.
Dimensions	Height: 20in Width: 29in
Credit line	Donated from the Daniele and Howard Harrison Collection
Object history	This work comes from the collection of late 20th century art (ceramics, drawings, paintings and sculpture) amassed by Daniele Harrison (1947-2004) and her husband Howard Harrison (1911-1991).
Subject depicted	Nude
Summary	Jim Mooney is currently teaching at the Royal College of Art. His watercolour, an relatively early work, shows eroticised, possibly mythic, figures in a landscape, prefiguring the themes of his later work, which foreground ideas about touch and intimacy.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.314-2006

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Record created	November 1, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O128911/the-fall-drawing-mooney-jim/

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