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© Estate of Terry Frost. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.

UNTITLED 1989

Sir Terry Frost (1915 – 2003)

Details

Dimension
63.5 X 63.5 CM
Media
LINOCUT
Accession number
P6928

Summary

The sun had long been a motif in Frost’s work, and when invited by Charles Booth-Clibborn to make a portfolio elected to base the work on the rising and setting the sun he could see over the village of Trewellard in Cornwall near his home. The artist chose the linocut medium for the deep clear colours that could be obtained and cut the prints in his studio. Several other prints were made at the same time and printed only one of each by rubbing the paper with the back of a spoon. In the end eight works were chosen for the portfolio which was printed by Vivien Hendry and published in 1989 in an edition of 40.

Further reading:
Contemporary Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern and The Paragon Press, 1995, texts by Jeremy Lewison, Duncan Macmillan and Patrick Elliott