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Faruck un coup de vent

Print
1986 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A book comprising a pleated sheet of paper inside card boards bound in orange silk drawn upon with green ink. The paper is pleated to make 4 pages: a central outstanding fold, with two outside pieces pasted onto the insides of the boards, with images on all four pages. Signed and numbered in pencil Anju VI. On the cover signed again Anju, dated'86, inscribed Paris, Un Coup De Vent (also inscribed with the same phrase in Bengali) and a little...breeze and with scripts of Bengali and Roman letters, some not clearly legible.

Object details

Object type
TitleFaruck un coup de vent (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour monoprints retouched by hand, silk bound card boards with ink
Brief description
Set of colour monoprints entitled 'Faruck un coup de vent' by Anju Chaudhuri. France, 1986.
Physical description
A book comprising a pleated sheet of paper inside card boards bound in orange silk drawn upon with green ink. The paper is pleated to make 4 pages: a central outstanding fold, with two outside pieces pasted onto the insides of the boards, with images on all four pages. Signed and numbered in pencil Anju VI. On the cover signed again Anju, dated'86, inscribed Paris, Un Coup De Vent (also inscribed with the same phrase in Bengali) and a little...breeze and with scripts of Bengali and Roman letters, some not clearly legible.
DimensionsEach plate approx. 5.5 x 6.8 cm, the cover folded to 14.5 x 16.8 cm
Object history
Exhibitions: Horizon Gallery, Marchmont Street, London, WC1. April 1987.

Notes: Faruck is the name of a friend of the artist and the letters in the name are played in various combinations as part of the decoration on the cover.
Collection
Accession number
E.73-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
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