PHILLIPS, TOM (b. 1937, painter, writer and composer, R.A., R.E.)
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PHILLIPS, TOM (b. 1937, painter, writer and composer, R.A., R.E.)
Sold for £840 (US$ 1,105) inc. premium

Lot Details
PHILLIPS, TOM (b. 1937, painter, writer and composer, R.A., R.E.)
SELF-PORTRAIT, lithograph, Humument Self-Portrait at Fifty, head and shoulders, full face, against a typographical background, with text in speech bubbles ('play the shadow of fifty years. image only a century. At last - welcome by my own self!'), SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TOM PHILLIPS ('Roy with best wishes (fiftieth birthday cricket portrait) Tom Phillips XCI'), one of an edition of approximately 400, signed and numbered by the artist (the present one without the standard signature or numbering), framed and glazed, size of image 8 x 5¾ inches (20 x 12 cm), overall size 11½ x 9½ inches (32 x 24 cm), 1987

Footnotes

  • The original of this self-portrait was the result of a request from Artsite in Bath who had asked a number of artists to work on images of themselves for a book. It forms part of his ongoing project (started in 1966), A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, now published in several editions. Tom Phillips decided to use this image as the entrance / lottery ticket for a cricket match to celebrate his birthday at the Oval Cricket Ground in May 1987. For this purpose he had a lithographic version made, which was further worked on and printed on specially selected paper. The present example, from his own collection, has been augmented by his signed autograph inscription.

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