Animal (1996)

David Musgrave

ink on wall

Classification:

Wall painting

Materials:

Ink

Dimensions:

9.6 x 6.6 cm

Accession Number:

0252 (estate accession number)

Credit:

Gift of the Thomas Frangenberg Estate; presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 2018/19

Scheme:

Thomas Frangenberg Bequest (2018)

Ownership history:

Gifted by the Estate of Thomas Frangenberg (1957-2018) to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Leeds Art Gallery, 2018/19

Relationship:

Leeds Art Gallery Thomas Frangenberg

The sculpture Animal (1998), a wall-based piece based on the imagined anatomical structure of Charles M Schulz’s cartoon canine character Snoopy in the comic strip Peanuts, for which this line drawing is a preliminary work, was purchased by Tate in 2012 (T13657). Musgrave called upon the conventions of anatomical diagrams and commented that this work ‘conflates recognition, abstraction, the imaginary and the concrete in a single form’.

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