Richard Hamilton
Works available
Motel I
1979
Soft ground etching, open-, step bite aquatint from 2 plates.
44 × 56.5 cm / 17 1/4 × 22 1/4 ins
Edition of 40
KW112 RH 108
Motel II
1979
Soft ground etching, open-, step bite aquatint from 2 plates.
44 × 56.5 cm / 17 1/4 × 22 1/4 ins
Edition of 40
KW113 RH 109
Copy no. 33
Berlin Interior
1979
Photogravure, engraving, hard ground etching roulette, aquatint and burnishing.
56.3 × 76 cm / 22 4/5 × 29 4/5 ins
Edition of 100
KW109 RH 105
Bathroom - fig.1
1997
Iris digital print. Image created on Quantel Paintbox and output on disc.
Edition of 50
61 × 56 cm / 23 1/2 × 22 ins
KW182 RH178
The Heaventree of Stars
1998
Iris digital print. Image created on a Quantel Paintbox and output on disc.
76 × 56 cm / 29 4/5 × 22 ins
Edition of 40
KW190 RH 168
The Annunciation
2005
Inkjet digital print
59.4 × 68 cm / 23 2/5 × 29 3/4 ins
Edition of 60
Palindrome
1974
Lenticular acrylic laminated on collotype, printed in five colours.
Edition of 100
72.5 × 57.1 cm / 28 1/2 × 22 ins
KW94 RH93
He Foresaw His Pale Body
1990 -91
Edition of 120
Sugar-lift aquatint, roulette and heliogravure
75.5 × 56 cm / 29 3/4 × 22 ins
Biography
Richard Hamilton was an instrumental figure in the development of Pop Art in Britain as a member of the Independent Group, formed in the 1950s at the Institute of Contemporary Art. He has had a prolific and celebrated career as a print-maker, and in 1983 won the World Print Council Award. Hamilton will be lending to the exhibition, amongst other works, his most recent Toaster prints. Retrospective exhibitions of his paintings, installations, prints and multiples have been held at the Tate Gallery in 1970 and 1992. He represented Britain at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Richards' work can be found in numerous public collections including The Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, The Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, the Tate, London, the Guggenheim New York and the Museum Moderna Kunst, Vienna. In 2008 Richard Hamilton was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize by the Japan Art Association, a mark of the highest international distinction for achievement in the arts.