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Medium
colour woodcut on card on aluminium foil on card
Measurements
60.5 × 40.0 cm (image) 70.1 × 50.1 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Edition
ed. 11/60
Printing/Publishing
published by Paragon Press, London, 2022
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.r.: HUME
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse l.c.l.: 11/60
Accession Number
2022.1571.5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation and NGV Foundation Patrons, 2022
© Gary Hume
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work

Gary Hume is a British painter, sculptor and printmaker who came to prominence as a member of the Young British Artists in the early 1990s. He is known for his paintings in high-gloss industrial paints depicting portraits, everyday objects and floral subjects. Flowers have been a central motif in his art since 1993 and he has made several series of prints on the subject. The most recent series Flowers of Dover, made in 2022, exemplifies Hume’s highly reductive and simplified style, unusual colour combinations and exploration in his art of beauty and pleasure as well as empathy and melancholy.