Rider’s Song
Etching and aquatint
1989-
About the work
- Location
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Country: Spain
City: Madrid
Place: British Embassy
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About the artist
Sir Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa. He was imprisoned while serving in the war but afterwards studied at Camberwell School of Arts, London, then settled in St Ives in 1950, where he worked as assistant to Barbara Hepworth. In 1951, after meeting the artist Roger Hilton, he began to use construction and collage. In 1952 Frost’s first major exhibition in London led to several decades of solo and group exhibitions around the world. In 1960 he visited the USA and met leading Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, and art critic Clement Greenberg. Knighted in 1998 for his contribution to British art, Frost continued to make paintings and prints as well as designing ceramics and textiles right up to his death in 2003.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- Lorca, Federico Garcia, poetry, abstract
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Details
- Title
- Rider’s Song
- Portfolio Title
- Eleven Poems by Federico García Lorca
- Edition
- 11/75
- Date
- 1989
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- height: 55.50 cm, width: 37.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Bonhams & Butterfields, San Franciso, November 2008
- Inscription
- bl: 11/75 ; br: Terry Frost
- Provenance
- R.J. & L.D.Fiedler, Altadena, California, USA (purchased from publisher 1989); Bonhams and Butterfields, San Francisco, 5 November 2008 (lot 311)
- GAC number
- 18236/2