collage
- Museum number
- 2005,0227.4
- Description
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Untitled Collage; a collage of various images including wine, bread and cheese left and a glass of milk r, James Joyce's caricature of Leopold Bloom with the first line from Homer's Odyssey centre, two medical studies of a woman's bottom, sagging left and pert r; the images cut and torn from magazines and other sources and pasted on to wood panel; kept within its original wooden frame. 1964
Collage of various pieces of paper on wood panel
- Production date
- 1964
- Dimensions
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Height: 365 millimetres
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Width: 492 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Elements from this collage, namely Joyce's caricature of Leopold Bloom, hero of his novel "Ulysses", the two female posteriors and the glass of milk, were subsequently incorporated in Kitaj's twelve colour screenprint and photoscreenprint 'The Desire for Lunch is a Bourgeios Obsessional Neurosis or Grey Schizoids', 1965, (R17; Kinsman 15).
Label text from:
Elements in this collage appeared in the print 'The Desire for Lunch is a Bourgeois Obsessional Neurosis or Grey Schizoids' (R17; 1965), shown alongside. They include James Joyce's caricature of Leopold Bloom, hero of his novel 'Ulysses' (1922) as well as the image of two buttocks, possibly taken from a medical textbook, and the glass of milk.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007-8 Nov.-Mar BM, Recent Acquisitions Part II, no cat.
2013, May - Sept, BM, 'Recent Acquisitions'
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Ulysses
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Associated Title: Odyssey
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- Mount to be stamped "Purchased from the David and Liza Brown Bequest Fund through the National Art Collections Fund"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2005,0227.4
