Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens
Silkscreen, 2004
Edition of 200, signed and numbered by the artist
Curator's Note: ...in response to Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'...
Paper size 51cm x 55cm
Image size 25.9cm x 31cm
£ 595 (approx. US$ 840, € 665)
VAT, postage and handling included
Curator's Note
In 2003 the charity, Paintings in Hospitals, invited 15 artists to produce work in response to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Written as a group of pieces for piano in 1874, the pictures that provided Mussorgsky’s original inspiration were mainly watercolours, painted by his friend Victor Hartman, who had died the previous year. For this interpretation Tom Phillips chose Mussorgsky’s fifth movement, Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens.