allen jones / life class poster / 26/2023
Allen Jones (born 1937) painter, lithographer and sculptor, studied at Hornsey
College of Art from 1955 to 1959, and at the Royal College of Art, where his
contemporaries included Hockney, Kitaj and Boshier, 1960-61. He had his first
one-man exhibition in 1963 at Tooth & Sons, and has since exhibited widely. He had
a major retrospective exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 1979, which subsequently toured to the Serpentine Gallery, London, and to Baden-Baden and Bielefeld. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1986.
Jones has taught at Chelsea and Croydon Schools of Art, and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künst, In 2013, Jones was given a retrospective at the RA.
Originally 'Life Class' was issued as a complete set of 14 lithographs in colours, offset, photo and hand-drawn, forming seven images, each of two abutting sheets with similarly divided title page, on J. Green Imperial waterleaf or BFK Rives papers, the
full sheets, loose, were contained in plastic sleeves hinged into an original red portfolio box.
Edition of 75 + 15AP
Allen Jones ‘Life Class Poster’ printed in 1968, published by Editions Alecto Ltd. The poster is printed on smooth wove paper printed to the edge.
Allen Jones
'Life Class' Poster 1968
Framed in super-slim aluminium
850mm x 550mm
in good condition - no damage and good colours
(more photographs to follow)
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