Primary Artist

Bea Maddock (1934–2016)

Title

Boy with a bicycle

Date made

1964

Reference

QVMAG (2011), 423; Maddock (1999), 74

Category

Print

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

Last Updated

04 Jan 2013