ALLEN JONES, R.A. (B. 1937)
What do you mean what do I mean?
Details
ALLEN JONES, R.A. (B. 1937)
What do you mean what do I mean?
signed, inscribed and dated 'Allen Jones 1968/'what do you mean what do I mean' (on the reverse of the upper section), signed and dated again 'Allen Jones/68' (on the stretcher of the lower section)
upper section: oil on canvas
lower section: acrylic and airbrushed photo on Masonite
upper section: 60 x 36 in. (152.4 x 91.4 cm.)
lower section: 69 x 36 in. (175.2 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1968.
What do you mean what do I mean?
signed, inscribed and dated 'Allen Jones 1968/'what do you mean what do I mean' (on the reverse of the upper section), signed and dated again 'Allen Jones/68' (on the stretcher of the lower section)
upper section: oil on canvas
lower section: acrylic and airbrushed photo on Masonite
upper section: 60 x 36 in. (152.4 x 91.4 cm.)
lower section: 69 x 36 in. (175.2 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1968.
Provenance
Private collection, Italy.
Literature
A. Jones and A. Matthews, Allen Jones Figures, Milan, 1969, p. 39, illustrated on the front cover.
Exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones: Retrospective of Paintings, Liverpool, Arts Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, 1979, n.p., no. 32.
A. Lambirth, Allen Jones: Works, London, 2005, p. 60, fig. 56.
O. Letze, M. Livingstone and N. Rosenthal, exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones: Off the Wall, Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2012, pp. 27, 231, no. 24, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones, London, Royal Academy, 2013, p. 9, fig. 4.
Exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones: Retrospective of Paintings, Liverpool, Arts Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, 1979, n.p., no. 32.
A. Lambirth, Allen Jones: Works, London, 2005, p. 60, fig. 56.
O. Letze, M. Livingstone and N. Rosenthal, exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones: Off the Wall, Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2012, pp. 27, 231, no. 24, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Allen Jones, London, Royal Academy, 2013, p. 9, fig. 4.
Exhibition
Liverpool, Arts Council of Great Britain, Walker Art Gallery, Allen Jones: Retrospective of Paintings, March - April 1979, no. 32, full scale photographic reproduction exhibited: this exhibition travelled to London, Serpentine Gallery, May - June 1979; Sunderland, Museum and Art Gallery, June - July 1979; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, September - October 1979; and Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, November - December 1979.
Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Allen Jones: Off the Wall, June - September 2012, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Völklingen, UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, October 2012 - June 2013; and Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, June - September 2013.
Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Allen Jones: Off the Wall, June - September 2012, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Völklingen, UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, October 2012 - June 2013; and Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen, June - September 2013.
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Angus Granlund
Director, Senior Specialist