Nebraska

Artwork details

Artist

Albert Irvin RA

Title

Nebraska

Description

Nebraska I, 2008

Screenprint and woodblock in colours on wove paper, framed
Signed by the artist and annotated in pencil, on recto

Sheet: 58 x 56.5 cm
Framed: 78 x 80 cm

Edition of 35

A pivotal figure in the post-war reassessment of painting, Irvin's encounter with American Abstract Expressionism at the Tate in 1956 proved transformative, liberating him from figuration and unlocking a lifelong conviction that pure colour and mark-making could articulate the full range of human feeling without recourse to the representational.

In the Nebraska series, that conviction reaches an exhilarating pitch: bold chromatic fields, animated by the tension between screen-printed colour planes and the textured relief of woodblock, coalesce into a composition at once improvisatory and rigorously felt — Irvin himself described colour not as symbol but as sensation, relative and alive, shaped entirely by its context.

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Date

2008

Medium

Screenprint

Edition

35

Signature

Signed

Sheet

58 x 56.5 cm

Status

Available

Price

£2,250.00