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Bacon, Francis
Head VI
1949
Hiorns, Roger
Nunhead
2004
Perry, Grayson
Spirit Jar
1994
Freud, Lucian
Girl in a Green Dress
1954
Caulfield, Patrick
Oh Hélène, J'erre en ma chambre (Oh Helen, I roam my room) Poemes et Planches - Jules Laforgue French Edition B
1973
Phillips, Ciara
Things I associate with you
2014
Prodger, Charlotte
BRIDGIT
2016
Ofili, Chris
Popcorn Shells
1995
Riley, Bridget
Movement in Squares
1961
Caro, Anthony
Slow Movement
1965
Tillmans, Wolfgang
Gedser
2004
Phillipson, Heather
True To Size
2015
Warren, Rebecca
Regine
2007
Lucas, Sarah
Self Portrait with Fried Eggs (from Self Portraits series 1990-98)
1996
Barlow, Phyllida
untitled: dunce
2015
Mellors, Nathaniel
Hippy Dialectics
2010
Johnson, Claudette
Figure in Blue
2018
Auerbach, Frank
Jym in the Studio
1963
Unwin, Phoebe
Sleeper
2012
Burke, Vanley
Educational Outing from Handsworth from Inside series
1968
Hockney, David
We Two Boys Together Clinging
1961
Hatoum, Mona
+ and -
1994
Organ, Margaret
Loop
1978
Killip, Chris
Youth, Jarrow
1976
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Antony Gormley: Field for the British Isles goes to Firstsite
21 Oct 2019
The world-famous Field for the British Isles, by Sir Antony Gormley is to go to Arts Council Collection National Partner gallery, Firstsite in Essex.
Field for The British Isles, which consists of 40,000 tiny individual terracotta figures, is the largest single artwork in the Arts Council Collection and was made by Gormley in 1993 with 100 volunteers who were each given a portion of clay and instructions for the size and shape he wanted for the figures.
After being acquired by the Arts Council Collection in 1995, Field...
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