A Feather from Freud’s Pillow

Cornelia Parker (1956 - )

Screenprint

1997

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Cornelia Parker RA (b. 1956) lives and works in London. One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, she works across sculpture, installation, embroidery, drawing, photography and film to investigate processes of transformation and suspension and to explore the times in which we live. Parker has presented numerous major commissions and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, notably at Tate Britain (2022), the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2019), Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster (2017) and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016). In 2010, Parker was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts and made an OBE. She received a CBE in 2022. In 2017, she was appointed as the first female Election Artist for the United Kingdom General Election. Her works are held in public and private collections around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Fundación “la Caixa” in Barcelona, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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    Title
    A Feather from Freud’s Pillow
    Edition
    45/100
    Date
    1997
    Medium
    Screenprint
    Dimensions
    height: 49.30 cm, width: 63.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from the Freud Museum, December 1998
    Inscription
    verso: 45/100 Cornelia Parker 97
    Provenance
    Freud Museum
    GAC number
    17371/8