print
- Museum number
- 1978,0121.131
- Title
- Object: Combat
- Description
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Two abstract struggling figures, onlooker standing by wall. 1937
Engraving
- Production date
- 1937
- Dimensions
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Height: 157 millimetres
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Width: 197 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Frances Carey & Antony Griffiths, 'Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960', BMP 1990, no.105.
This is one of a small number of prints made by Buckland Wright in the mid- to late 1930s that are closely linked with Hayter's style. In the case of this engraving, the link with Hayter can be seen also in the manner of stippling the background, and in the title, which is the same as that of 1973,0414.5. The image here seems to be of a classical wrestling match, and there is no overt reference to Spain. In an exhibition of Buckland Wright's work held at Dulau & Co. in London in 1937, this print was priced at 1 1/2 guineas.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990/1 Sept.-Jan., BM, 'Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960', no. 105
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,0121.131
