Colin Self Paintings

British, b. 1941

Colin E Self (born 1941 in Rackheath, Norfolk) is an English Pop Artist, whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics. As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1961 to 1963 Colin Self received encouragement for his drawings and collages from the artists David Hockney and Peter Blake. Visits to the United States and Canada in 1962 and 1965 heightened his consciousness of Cold War politics and events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the CND marches led him to create highly-innovative prints such as Nuclear Bomber No.1 (1963), one of the earliest multiple plate etchings, and paintings such as ‘Waiting Women and Two Nuclear Bombers’ (1962–63). He explored the relationship between violence and sexual threat in drawings of glamorous models and his iconic ‘Leopard-skin Nuclear Bomber’ sculptures. Following his trip to the US in 1965 he produced a series of drawings based on American nuclear fall-out shelters, Art Deco cinema interiors and of hot dogs, which he described as being ‘as important a 20th century development as a rocket.’ Richard Hamilton called him ‘the best draughtsman in England since William Blake.’ During the 60s Self showed with the Robert Fraser Gallery, London. Self was a central figure in the 1960s boom in printmaking. Drawing images from a variety of commercial sources, he created the Power and Beauty series of screen prints (1968) at Editions Alecto while his etching suite Prelude to the 1000 Temporary Objects of Our Time (1970–71) sought to provide a unique record of society in the event of its possible destruction. Suspicious of the commercial art world Self worked in isolation during the 1970s, producing atmospheric watercolours and charcoals of the landscapes of his native county Norfolk, and Scotland. A trip to the former Soviet Union in 1985-6 provided further stimulus to his explorations of Cold War culture. His collages from the 1980s to the present day combine his interest in Surrealist juxtaposition and the subconscious, with an inventive visual imagination. Some of these works such as ‘Burning Man Jumping from Building’ (1983) and ‘New York Disaster’ (1998) appear remarkably prescient in the light of events such as the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, while others create lighter, often humorous narratives from found material in everyday life – an extension of the language of Pop art. In 1997 the Tate Gallery held a show of all its holdings of his work. Since 2000 Self has worked on his ‘Odyssey/Iliad’ suite of etchings, in which the artist has returned to his 1960s technique of multiple-plate etching to re-tell the classical story by Homer using contemporary found-imagery and themes. A retrospective of his work entitled 'Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age' was held at Pallant House Gallery in 2008. Public collections holding work by Colin Self include Arts Council of Great Britain, Museum of Modern Art, Pallant House, Tate Gallery and The Priseman Seabrook Collection.

Artist: Colin Self

Butterfly Collage, Ink and Collage by Colin Self, 2013

By Colin Self

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Butterfly Collage, Ink and Collage by Colin Self, 2013 Additional information: Medium: Ink and Collage 25 x 14.5 cm 9 7/8 x 5 3/4 in Signed Colin Self is a British artist, known for his Pop Art affiliations and themes of Cold War culture in his work. Born in Norfolk in 1941, Self studied first at Wymondham College, followed by Norwich School of Art where he was taught by Jeffrey Camp...

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20th Century Colin Self Paintings

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Ink

Colin Self
Butterfly Collage, Ink and Collage by Colin Self, 2013, 2013

$2,506

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Mid-20th Century Post-War Colin Self Paintings

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Ink, Gouache

Alexander Calder
Mickey Mouse, 1974

$175,000

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Horse, Ink on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"

By Sunil Das

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Sunil Das - Horse - 9 x 6 inches ( unframed size ) Ink on Paper, 2012 Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang condition. Sunil Das ( 1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist fr...

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Early 2000s Modern Colin Self Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Sunil Das
Horse, Ink on Paper by Indian Modern Artist Sunil Das "In Stock", 2012

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Horse, Drawing, Ink on Paper, Brown, Black by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"

By Sunil Das

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Sunil Das - Horse - 9.5 x 7 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and r...

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2010s Modern Colin Self Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Sunil Das
Horse, Drawing, Ink on Paper, Brown, Black by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock", 2012

$1,105

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Hilary Hennes, Cat Sleeping (c.1940), painting Modern British Art Hilary Miller

By Hilary Hennes

Located in London, GB

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1940s Modern Colin Self Paintings

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Horse, Pen & Ink on Paper, Black & White by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"

By Sunil Das

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Sunil Das - Horse - 8.25 X 6.5 inches (unframed size) Pen & Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist paint...

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2010s Modern Colin Self Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Sunil Das
Horse, Pen & Ink on Paper, Black & White by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock", 2010

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