Paperwork

Exhibition
13 Oct 1982 – 16 May 1983
Image of Black abstract print

Roy Lichtenstein, Gemini G.E.L., Modern head #3, 1970, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1973 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Copyright Agency

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Ranging from Gauguin's lithographs on yellow paper to Warhol's portrait of Merce Cunningham on gift wrapping, from the tiny embossed gypsographs of Victorian invention to the linear constructions that Josef Albers made with the help of a computer, the exhibition culminates in the dramatic works of the 1970s, in which artists actually worked in paper at the wet stage. It includes works as diverse as David Hockney's twelve-sheet Diver painted in pulp and Rauschenberg's aromatic multiples sculpted from a mixture of pulp and adobe mud. Mounted out of stock and with only a handful of works specially purchased for it, the exhibition reveals the breadth and vitality of the print collecting policy that the Gallery has established.

Text sourced from: Gilmour, Pat and Anne Willsford. Paperwork. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1982.

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