Lot 111: m - ANTHONY HILL B. 1930

'THE NINE' - HOMMAGE A KHLEBNIKOV NO.2 1976

'THE NINE' - HOMMAGE A KHLEBNIKOV NO.2 1976

octagonal, diameter 91.5cm., 36in.

signed in full and with monogram, inscribed ''THE NINE''/ THIRD VERSION/ (HOMMAGE A KHLEBNIKOV) and dated 75-76 on the reverse

engraved and relief laminated plastic on wood

PROVENANCE

Kasmin Ltd., London

EXHIBITED

Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 10, 1976;
London, Hayward Gallery, Anthony Hill: A Retrospective Exhibition, 20^th May -- 10^th July 1983, cat.no.91, illustrated p.62.

NOTE

A homage to the poems of the Russian poet and artist Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), a founder of Russian Futurism and a leader in zaum poetry, who delved into the roots of the Russian language to compose poetry based on sounds alone. Virtually untranslatable from the original, his works frequently demonstrate minute changes in each line, taking an idea or concept through gradual changes in a way that was to be re-used much later in the work of text-influenced artists such as Bruce Nauman.