1977 Marc Chagall French Art Exhibition Poster
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1979 Kenneth Noland English Screenprint. Colour screenprint after ' Gift 1961-2 '. Printed for the Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London 1979 by A.J. Huggins of Bristol. ' Gift 1961–2 ' is a square painting with a central image consisting of concentric rings circling an olive green core. Radiating outwards from this centre is a ring of muted grey-green, a thin ring of dark cobalt blue and finally a ring of pale ultramarine blue. The background is painted a warm earthy yellow, slithers of which are visible between the edges of some of the rings, and in the case of the white and blue circles this produces a vibrating effect. Such colour effects were of prime importance to the artist: ‘I wanted to have color be the origin of the painting’, Noland later explained of works of this type. ‘I was trying to neutralize the layout, the shape, the composition … I wanted to make color the generating force’. The work was made towards the end of a four-year
