Materials:
Watercolour
Physical Object Description:
Artist's Book comprising an irregularly accordion-folded (leporello) sequence of handmade paper strips, each 17 cm wide, attached together on the reverse side by fragments of newsprint bearing television listings. The strips together form a continuous leaf over 1.5 metres long. A line of watercolour in tones of brown and pink, the shade varied for each of the three sections, runs along the upper edge. Paper shapes are collaged onto the leaves and with some gilding at the fore edge. The whole is pasted at one edge to a blue card cover, stapled onto which is a scarlet diagonal paper cross. Accompanied by a loose leaf bearing coloured shapes and a telephone number. Edition of 20 copies, signed by the artists
Technique:
Leporello, Gilded
Dimensions:
17.5 x 13 cm
Credit:
Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023
Ownership history:
Imprints Galerie, Crest, France (Matthew Tyson / Isabella Oulton); purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason, 1993; gifted by the late Dr Richard Sykes (1946-2019) and his wife Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023; presented to The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, 2023/24
