Location

Country: Belgium
City: Brussels
Place: British Embassy, UK representation to the EU & UK delegation to NATO

In The Flood, Boyd & Evans have depicted two rooms. In the room on the left hand-side, a dining table and chair are placed in the foreground. The room’s walls appear to be transparent and a mass of water seems to be press up against them. On the right, the water has entered a different room and a man dressed in a business suit stands alone, waist high in water. Boyd & Evans have used the aquatint technique in order to create these black and white prints. The aquatint technique produces a grainy surface which enables a heightened sense of tone, similar to pencil drawing. The artists also make paintings and photographs. Speaking about their way of working with images, which they refer to as ‘narrative’, Boyd & Evans have stated:
We do not like being referred to as realists, whether hyper-, super-, photo-, or just plain. Reality is so different from a picture. There is never any confusion. 'Pictorial' would be better, 'representational' quite good enough.

Places

Subjects

vase (as Subject), genre, flower, flood, man, fence, brick wall, door, window, domestic interior, table cloth, chair, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

aquatint

Artist

Boyd and Evans (1944; 1945 - )

Title

The Flood

Edition

2/25

Date

1971

Medium

Aquatint (2 plates)

Dimensions

pair of images, each 20cm x 20cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 26 October 1976

Inscription

below image: 2/25 The Flood / Fiannula Boyd Leslie Evans 71

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, on 26 October 1976 (Lot 243); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

12512