The Flood

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About the work
- Location
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Country: Belgium
City: Brussels
Place: British Embassy, UK representation to the EU & UK delegation to NATO
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. -
About the artist
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Explore
- 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
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Details
- 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