drawing
- Museum number
- 1990,0519.10
- Description
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British Museum tapis; with abstract design. 1950
Brush drawing in black ink
Verso: Section drawings
Graphite
- Production date
- 1950
- Dimensions
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Height: 357 millimetres
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Width: 475 millimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Mike O'Hanlon in the Ethographic department wrote to Frances Carey in Prints and Drawings on 10/6/91 in response to her asking what Paolozzi's inspiration could have been for this design. He writes "the fact that Paolozzi uses the word 'tapis' suggests that his inspiration was either the embroidered design on a warp-ikat tapis cloth from S.Sumatra, or else a painted bark cloth from N. Philippines which is also known as 'tapis'".
Paolozzi selected the exhibition 'Lost Magic Kingdoms' at the Museum of Mankind in 1985, as a testimony to the importance of the British Museum's ethnographic collections for his own development. This work was executed while Paolozzi was teaching textile design at the Central School of Art.
Lit.: F. Carey, exhib.cat., BM, London, `Collecting the 20th century`, 1991, p.10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1991/2 Oct-Feb, BM, Collecting the 20th century
2008-9 Sept.-Jan BM, British Sculptors' Drawings, no cat.
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1990,0519.10
