That said our record in Achill is good -last time Ireland were in a similar position we saw ROG kicking the winning drop goal so perhaps if Munster got to the Heinekin Cup Final we should go to Achill to watch it???
Alright, I said I wasn't finished with the British Museum and indeed I wasn't.
I got to go into the study room where I was seated at a desk and asked what I would like to see........... a bit dumbstruck and the extremely polite attendant explained that when one mentioned Goya or Durer one needed to be quite specific as their holdings of prints were rather large.
I decided then on Stanley William Hayter who has been mentioned before in these posts, but now I was presented with two large boxes of his original prints - etches, aquatints, mezzotints; unfortunately I was not allowed to photograph but if I wanted I could have drawn as much as I wanted -I would even have been given an easel - but no wet materials.
One thing did occur to me looking at his work from the 40s and 50s - I wonder how much he knew of Pollock??
Later in the afternoon, I went back to the west end and the Cork Street area and visited a number of commercial galleries:
The first was Alan Cristea who was showing Richard Hamilton prints and I am indebted to Michael Canning for pointing me to this as I did not know about it; I will show a selection of what was there but the word eclectic really doesn't cover it:
Five Tyres Remoulded 1971 - casts and screenprints
What made yesterdays........1991 - colour laser print
What makes todays......... 1994 - colour lser print
Aquatint
Picasso's Meninas 1973 - Hard-, soft ground and stipple open-bite and lift ground aquatint engraving, drypoint and burnishing on Rives paper
Flower-piece -1975 -litho in 3 colours and white -6 stones and 4 plates -Arches paper: Ed 75
Leopold Bloom 1983 - Aquatint
Screenprint in 30 colours from 30 stencils on Somerset paper
I then visited Stephen Friedman who was showing Manuel Espinosa of whom I just show two:
These were paintings and inkworks from the 1970s and I really liked them for there uncompromising stance - the type of work I thought I would do but now know I am headed in a rather different direction.
At Waddington Custon it was a rather more eclectic display of work from established artists -I didn't ask the prices:
Albers
Indiana
Moore
Oldenberg
Rauschenberg -1967
Rauschenberg - 1997
The last visit I payed was to the Gallery of African Art which was showing work by Malangatana from Mozambique -It was a pity I couldn't get some pictures here as the work was amazing and displayed an art whose influences are far from what we are used to and we really need to be getting away from the usual bases.
I have one more call in London to mention but I also have to be getting back to the studio as there have been some interesting developments.
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