Boy with a bicycle
Primary Artist
Bea Maddock (1934–2016)
Title
Boy with a bicycle
Date made
1964Reference
QVMAG (2011), 423; Maddock (1999), 74
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
drypoint, printed in black ink with plate-tone, from two abutted copper plates
Text printed from matrix
no imprint
Edition information
edition of 4 printed in sepia ink in Hobart 1964; edition of 10 printed in black ink in Launceston 1965
Production notes
The plates were produced in 1964 while the artist was living at Reed Street South Melbourne. Impressions were printed in sepia ink in October 1964 at Battery Point, Hobart. The edition was printed at the artists studio, St John Street, Launceston in 1965. In the 2002 reissue of the Melbourne drypoints, printed by John Loane, Viridian Press, the two plates were printed on seperate sheets and titled Bicycle I, and Bicycle II
Subject description
Boy riding bicycle and boy carrying a damaged bicycle.
Country of context
Australia
Legacy id
38335
Creators
MADDOCK, Bea | (1934–2016) Australian | Female | artist
Impressions
Collection
National Gallery of Australia | 76.485.30
State
published state
Impression
4/10
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