Reaper (h)

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RICHARD HAMILTON (1922-2011)
Reaper (h)
drypoint, 1949, on laid paper, signed, initialled in pencil, numbered 4/20 (there were scarcely more than ten printed), printed and published by the artist at the Slade School, London, the full sheet, a flattened diagonal crease at upper right, otherwise in very good condition
Plate 175 x 248 mm., Sheet 233 x 294 mm.

Literature

Lullin 27

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Lot Essay

Hamilton's Reaper series was exhibited at Gimpel Fils, London in 1950 and for the show the artist marked presumptive edition numbers on his proofs for the benefit of possible clients.

However, as Etienne Lullin points out, the envisaged edition of twenty impressions was probably never completed, and it is likely that only about ten impressions of each of the Reapers were ever printed.

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