Sir Michael Craig-Martin (1941-) Deconstructing Seurat


£4199

Deconstructing Seurat (turquoise green), 2004; a pair of screenprints on wove paper published by Alan Cristea Gallery, London.

This pair of screenprints forms a diptych, showing side by side the two fundamental structural elements of Seurat's painting 'Bathers at Asnières' (1884) in the National Gallery, London. Using digital technology, Craig-Martin has separated the background - the river, riverbank and distant landscape - from the group of figures who occupy it. He also transposed the colours into his own characteristically bright palette without any tonal values. In this way he seeks to offer the viewer a new way of seeing and experiencing a familiar image, which is a regular theme in his paintings, sculptures and wall drawings.

Both prints are framed, signed, dated and numbered 8/40 to the reverse.

 

62.5 x 92.5cm

The prints have not been examined out of their frames but they appear to be in excellent condition.

 


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