Lot 55: John Latham (1921-2006)

John Latham (1921-2006)
Review of a Dictionary series
signed, and dedicated 'bons annivers [sic]/JL 18.8.60' (lower right)
screenprint on canvas, unstretched and unframed
35½ x 46½ in. (90.2 x 118.1 cm.)

A 25th wedding anniversary present from the artist to the present owner.

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'Review of a Dictionary was a long-term project initiated in the mid-1960s. Pages of a dictionary were photographed ... and then, during the dark-room phase of development, various 'experiments' were performed ... as a result, organic, blob-like shapes appeared within which portions of the original text could be discerned ... silk-screen canvases were produced with the aid of different London printers and the series was exhibited at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, in 1969' (see J. Walker, John Latham The Incidental Person - His Art and Ideas, Middlesex, 1995, p. 103).