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Mother and Child

Publisher Waddington Graphics British
1984
Not on view
In 1969, while working in Milan, Hamilton was given a snapshot of a colleague’s wife and child. He kept the photograph in his studio for fifteen years before making works based on the image. This print was preceded by a watercolor of the subject and followed by a full-scale painting. Drawn as much to the bright, sun dappled setting as to the casually cropped image of the mother, Hamilton undertook a highly complicated technique for translating the watercolor version to this print. Collotype is a seldom-used photomechanical process developed in the nineteenth century. When allied with screen print, said Hamilton, it “works wonders.”

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mother and Child
  • Artist: Richard Hamilton (British, London 1922–2011 Oxfordshire)
  • Publisher: Waddington Graphics
  • Date: 1984
  • Medium: Collotype and screenprint
  • Edition: artist's proof 9/10 from an edition of 98 + 10 artist's proofs
  • Dimensions: 24 1/8 × 22 3/8 in. (61.2 × 56.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Alan Cristea Gallery, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 2003
  • Object Number: 2003.302
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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