Michael Rothenstein RA

Four Brushes
1989
Wood, paint brushes, and paint boxed
26 x 38 x 3 ins (66.0 x 96.5 x 7.6 cms)

signed

Mel Gooding, Michael Rothenstein Boxes, Art Books International,1992

pages 71, 72 and 74, illustrated page 72

Before 1960 Rothenstein was best known as a printmaker but the beginnings of boxed assemblage using different elements of print and construction were to mark a dramatic shift in medium and intensity. Four Brushes was one of a series using natural and found objects to startling effect. Possibly a metaphor for the actual process of painting the brushes explode in a blaze of colour with hints of volcanic plumes over a rich blue background.

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy 1992, cat no 75

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