Aeroplane
Print
1963 (made)
1963 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Allen Jones was a leading member of the Pop Art movement, which was inspired by, and appropriated much from popular culture, particularly comics, advertising and consumer goods. He studied at Hornsey and the Royal College of Art; at the latter he was a fellow student of David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips who were to become some of the most important British artists of their generation and with whom he shares certain qualities of picture-making. This piece is a relatively early work, made before he had fully developed his characteristic focus on the erotic and fetishism associated with female sexuality. However, this image does suggest a romantic encounter.
In 1963, the year he made this print, Jones was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale.
In 1963, the year he made this print, Jones was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Aeroplane (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Colour lithograph by Allen Jones entitled 'Aeroplane', 1963 |
| Physical description | Sheet divided roughly into three sections horizontally: in the top third: the head of a woman with arms folded at elbows, spread to either side of her with hands meeting below the chin; she rests on a red panel taking up the middle third of the sheet and bearing the word 'LOVE' in black capital letters. In the bottom third: a green panel with a central panel covered in brown spots - roughly interpretable as the thigh area of a woman's bikini and the top of her thighs. |
| Dimensions |
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| Style | |
| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 5/23 |
| Marks and inscriptions | Allen Jones / 63
Aeroplane 5/23 (All in pencil: signed and dated, inscribed with title and numbered.) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Allen Jones was a leading member of the Pop Art movement, which was inspired by, and appropriated much from popular culture, particularly comics, advertising and consumer goods. He studied at Hornsey and the Royal College of Art; at the latter he was a fellow student of David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips who were to become some of the most important British artists of their generation and with whom he shares certain qualities of picture-making. This piece is a relatively early work, made before he had fully developed his characteristic focus on the erotic and fetishism associated with female sexuality. However, this image does suggest a romantic encounter. In 1963, the year he made this print, Jones was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the Paris Biennale. |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1963 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.310-1963 |
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| Record created | June 20, 2008 |
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