Live Auction 1124Modern British Art Day Sale
Joe Tilson, R.A. (b. 1928)
Lot 107

Joe Tilson, R.A. (b. 1928)

Original Designs for New York Decal Print 1 and 2

Closed11 July 2013

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GBP 6,875

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Joe Tilson, R.A. (b. 1928)
Original Designs for New York Decal Print 1 and 2
each signed and dated 'Joe Tilson 1967' (lower right), the one inscribed 'New York Decal Print # 1' (lower left) and the other inscribed 'New York Decal Print # 2' (lower left)
the one pencil and gouache; the other mixed media
each 39¾ x 27 in. (101 x 68.5 cm.) (2)

with Marlborough Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

'I am very interested in the ambiguous imagery of the Big City. The poetry of things that go to make urban life. Things that reveal our nature. Emblems of life. A strategy I often use in my work is the metamorphosis achieved by altering the meaning and significance of an image by isolation and enlargement' (Joe Tilson quoted in E. Di Martino, Tilson: The Printed Works 1963-2009, Venice, 2009, p. 25).