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Sex and Matisse (I)Sex and Matisse

Wiszniewski, Adrian, 1958 (b.) (Artist)‎, Glasgow Print Studio (Publisher)‎, Duffin, Stuart, 1959 (b.) (Collaborating Printer)‎

Image with 'Sex and Matisse' and geometric marks in a square, printed in silver and red ink. In an interview with Glasgow Print Studio on 14th July 2010, the artist explained, “this is the Sex and Matisse portfolio... I think the Print Studio’s been very good because I’d done the Harlequin series with Paragon Press and I quite fancied doing another suite, because the Harlequin suite was really to do with Picasso and Demoiselles d’Avignon and taking it a bit apart and putting back together again and reconstructing, in a sort of Rake’s Progress [way]. The next stage was to do Matisse...There was a big retrospective in New York, a big fat tome on Matisse came out at the exact same time as Madonna’s book ‘Sex’. So I thought I’d bring them together and do ‘Sex and Matisse’. I haven’t seen Madonna’s book ‘Sex’, I was too embarrassed to buy it. But what was interesting was that there was a Culture Show special type thing when Madonna’s book came out and it was given such a high elevation as a cultural event, that I thought, Wow!” On looking at the print, Wiszniewski believed that it was created by a combination of woodcut and silkscreen.

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Lanarkshire

1993 - 1993

Woodcut