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Richard HamiltonThree studies of Bloom Richard Hamilton James Joyce Ulysses illustration print1949-73
1949-73
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Richard Hamilton began studying James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) during his national service in 1947. Hamilton was inspired by the idea of illustrating Joyce’s complex, experimental novel in and began making sketches the following year, only to put the project to one side in 1950, with no publisher willing to front the exorbitant cost of resetting the novel for illustrations. It was not until 1981 that he made the decision to create one illustration for each of the novel’s eighteen chapters, and a nineteenth image – a portrait of one of the novel’s main protagonists, Leopold Bloom – destined as a frontispiece. He conceived these images as large intaglio prints in a range of styles. “Three small portraits of Bloom” were the only etchings made in 1949 from the preparatory Ulysses drawings and watercolors of this period, although all of them had etching in mind. A few proofs of Bloom were pulled as experiments in different intaglio methods in 1949. The large-scale intaglio portrait was finally achieved in 1983. Eventually, the artist came to the conclusion that the illustrations should not be incorporated into a new edition of the novel, and the works were not exhibited until 2001.
In the artist’s words: “The process of studying Joyce diligently was to provide me with not only subject matter, but it also demonstrated a stylistic and technical freedom that might be applied to painting. Joyce, with his mastery of all styles and his virtuosity in weaving them into a rich tapestry, was the exemplar that later gave me confidence to try some unlikely associations in paint. Each of the twelve chapters of Ulysses is treated differently ... None of the episodes is so complex as the ‘Oxen of the Sun’, in which the birth of a child in the Horne’s house, a lying-in hospital, is echoed in the text by the birth of language, and its historic progress, in a procession of English prose styles from Latinate incantation through Anglo-Saxon, Mandeville, Morte d’Arthur, Milton, Swift, Pater, etc. to the slang of 1906.”
Text from Stephen Coppel, 'Imaging Ulysses: Richard Hamilton', London, BM, published by the British Council, 2002, cat. no. 29
Three studies of Bloom, 1949-73
Soft-ground etching, etched roulette, and dry roulette on Hosho Japanese paper
Plates 6 x 13 in. / 15 × 33 cm (overall)
Paper 13.7 x 18.5 in. / 34.8 × 47 cm
“Paul’s proof” written lower right in pencil. Signed and titled lower right in pencil. Edition 28 with 3 artist’s proofs: this copy an Artist’s proof. Printed by Hartmut Frielinghaus, Hamburg. Published by Petersburg Press, New York. A few impressions were made of individual plates in 1949; the three plates were printed together in 1973.
Condition: Upper right corner paper is thinned. Upper left corner is creased. Horizontal crease running from left to right edge, with two other creases running from right edge to upper edge, bisected by two 1.5” vertical creases.
- Creator:Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011, British)
- Creation Year:1949-73
- Dimensions:Height: 13.75 in (34.93 cm)Width: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)
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- Condition:Upper right corner paper is thinned. Upper left corner is creased. Horizontal crease running from left to right edge, with two other creases running from right edge to upper edge, bisected by two 1.5” vertical creases.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1211210741602
Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London on February 24, 1922. He did an apprenticeship for an electrical components firm, during which time he began to take evening classes at Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Westminster School of Art.
In 1938, Hamilton enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts. His studies here were unfortunately cut short the following year as he joined the army as a technical draughtsman for the duration of World War II. Following the war, Hamilton spent two years at the Slade School of Art, University College, London.
Hamilton began to exhibit his art at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), and taught at the Central School of Art and Design from 1952. The first major exhibition of Hamilton’s paintings was shown at the Hanover Gallery, London in 1955. In 1993, Hamilton represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the Golden Lion. He has been the subject of several major exhibitions at Tate in London, notably in 1970 and 1992. Other retrospectives include at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1973, MACBA in Barcelona, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
In 2010, the Serpentine Gallery presented Hamilton’s work “Modern Moral Matters,” an exhibition which largely focused on Hamilton’s political and protest works. Hamilton has been showcased in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s “Richard Hamilton: Pop Art Pioneer 1922-2011,” and the National Gallery’s “Richard Hamilton: The Late Works” opened in 2012.
Hamilton has been awarded with the John Moores Painting Prize (1969), the Talens Prize International (1970), the Leone d’Oro (1993), the Arnold Bode Prize (1997) and has been made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2010. The Tate gallery in London has the largest repository of Hamilton’s work, but he is collected worldwide including at the Alan Cristea Gallery and the Museo Ncional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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