16 Appearances of the Union Jack
Silkscreen, 1974
Edition of 70, signed and numbered by the artist
Curator's Note: ...skies in a vexillologist's nightmare...
Paper size 44cm x 61.5cm
Image size 34cm x 52.5cm
£ 425 (approx. US$ 600, € 475)
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Curator's Note
During the early 1970’s Tom Phillips made a series of works (paintings, prints, tapestries and sculpture) concerned with the representation of flags, and in this print he is "remembering all the flags I had seen fluttering on postcards, each one a Union Jack but in fantastic ways eroded by the stages of offset lithography, brutalised by the tinter’s brush, or fragmented and faded beyond recognition by some earlier graphic process."
In this 1974 print he shows "a selection of the source material much enlarged (some of the flags I worked on were less that half a centimetre long) the sixteen union jacks appearing with their (often equally remarkable) skies in a vexillologist’s nightmare."
For further detail about related works search under 'flags' at tomphillips.co.uk