Swingeing London 67-Poster

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Richard Hamilton
Swingeing London 67-Poster
1968

Name: Swingeing London 67-Poster
Brand: Richard Hamilton
Rating: 5 (100 reviews)

Price:$9,000

$12,500List Price

About the Item

Signed and numbered 21/50 in pencil, lower left Edition: From the deluxe edition Provenance: Pace Gallery, NY (art transport sticker verso of backing board) Edition: Per the Tate Museum, London, 1000 copies were printed on Opaline machine-made wove stock and a further 1000 were printed on Fabriano paper. 1950 copies comprise the regular edition and are unsigned. The remaining fifty copies on Fabriano paper comprise the deluxe edition and are signed by the artist. A further fifty artist's proofs on Fabriano paper are signed; some artist's proofs on either stock were dedicated and signed by the artist. Publisher: Edition ED912 in Milan, with the publisher's justification verso, numbered 72 in type from the stated edition of 1000. Reference: Richard Hamilton: Prints 1939-83, Stuttgart and London 1984, p.79, reproduced p.79. Note: Hamilton created Swingeing London 67 - poster in response to a commission by Edition ED912 in Milan, a distributor of art posters. The poster is one of a group of paintings and prints Hamilton made after his art dealer Robert Fraser (1937-86) was arrested and imprisoned for the possession of heroin. On 12 February 1967 the police raided a party at the Sussex farmhouse of Keith Richards, one of the members of the rock group, the Rolling Stones, where they found evidence of the consumption of various drugs. On 27 June 1967, Fraser and Mick Jagger (the band's lead singer) were found guilty of the possession of illegal drugs. The following day the two men were handcuffed to each other and driven to court in a police van, where they were sentenced to six months and three months respectively. During the months of Fraser's imprisonment, his gallery was closed while an agency he normally employed to collect exhibition reviews also collected press cuttings documenting the trial, which had been given front-page coverage in the newspapers. Fraser's secretary was happy to lend Hamilton the collection of press cuttings from which he made the collage on which the poster is based. Swingeing London 67 - source material (Daniela Palazzoli, Milan) combines newspaper cuttings with pieces of wrapping paper from an incense packet, a fragment from a Mars Bar wrapper and a section of a painting by the painter Bridget Riley (born 1931), who was also represented by Robert Fraser Gallery at that time. The page is dominated by the headlines 'Stones: "A Strong, Sweet Smell of Incense"', referring to the haze of incense smoke that greeted the police when they raided Richards's house. While the prosecution assumed that incense was a cover for the smell of cannabis, Hamilton's use of the headline subtly puns on the 'incensed' media frenzy and mystifying reports. Below the headline is a photograph of Fraser and Jagger trying to shield their faces from photographers as they are snapped, handcuffed together, in the police van on their way from jail to court. The original flash photograph was taken by a press photographer called John Twine and published in the Daily Sketch (29 June 1967). Hamilton used it as the basis for all the other works he made on this event, including the painting Swingeing London 67 (f) 1968-9 (T01144) and the prints Release1972 (P04254), Release Stage Proofs (P02416-32) and Swingeing London III 1972 (P04255).

Creator:
Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011, British)
Creation Year:
1968
Dimensions:
Height: 27.75 in (70.49 cm)Width: 19.75 in (50.17 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
Printed on wove paper.
Gallery Location:
Fairlawn, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: FA97621stDibs: LU1401450393

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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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Lithograph

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