Family Voices: Figures Looking out to Sea
Oil Painting
1980 (painted)
1980 (painted)
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Oil painting on canvas, unglazed, of a man and a boy sitting on a grassy cliff-top, sitting in contemplative positions, staring out to sea. The painting is framed, in a pine frame, within which is a beige hessian fillet, with white painted plywood inside edging.
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Title | Family Voices: Figures Looking out to Sea (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
Brief description | Oil painting by Guy Vaesen, one of seven paintings reproduced in the Next Edition, 1981, of Family Voices, a play by Harold Pinter |
Physical description | Oil painting on canvas, unglazed, of a man and a boy sitting on a grassy cliff-top, sitting in contemplative positions, staring out to sea. The painting is framed, in a pine frame, within which is a beige hessian fillet, with white painted plywood inside edging. |
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Production type | Unique |
Credit line | Given by Harold Pinter, CBE. |
Object history | This was painted as one of the seven paintings by Guy Vaesen that were reproduced in the Next Edition of the script of Family Voices by Harold Pinter, published to accompany the BBC Radio 3 broadcast on 22 January 1981, directed by Peter Hall, with Michael Kitchen as Voice 1, Peggy Ashcroft as Voice 1 and Mark Dignam as Voice 3. Family Voices was subsequently produced as a 'platform performance' at the National Theatre, 13 February 1981, with the same cast, and later presented as one of the 3 short Pinter plays in Other Places, Cottesloe Theatre, October 1982. Other Places comprised A Kind of Alaska, Family Voices and Victoria Station. |
Production | This was most probably painted in 1980 since it was first reproduced in 1981 in a printed edition to accompany the radio production broadcast in January 1981. |
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Accession number | S.122-2002 |
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Record created | February 28, 2002 |
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