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Born in London in 1928 Joe Tilson worked as a carpenter and joiner for two years before doing his National Service in the RAF from 1946-49.

His formal art studies were at St. Martin’s School of Art, where fellow students included Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, followed by the Royal College of Art from 1952 where his contemporaries included Peter Blake and Richard Smith. He won the Rome Prize in 1955 which enabled him to live in the city and other parts of Italy for about two years thus beginning what has become a lifelong attachment to the country and a major influence upon his art. Tilson eventually returned to England and over the years taught at various art schools including the Slade, King’s College in Newcastle, the School of Visual Arts in New York and in Hamburg.

From the early 1960s Tilson became closely associated with the British

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Pop Art movement when his work often involved the use of bold colours and schematized, emblematic imagery sometimes combined with grids as a structural device.

Tilson, who lives in London but also spends several months of each year in Italy, has enjoyed continuing success holding regular solo exhibitions at home and abroad for almost fifty years. Besides the Rome prize he has won several other prestigious awards including the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize (1960) and the Grand Prix d’Honneur, Biennale of Ljubljana (1996). He has also been given major retrospectives in Vancouver (1979), Bristol (1984) and the Royal Academy (Tilson: Pop to Present, 2002). In 1991 he was elected a Royal Academician and his work is held by many important public collections.

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Moon Signatures etching, aquatint and carborundum with white gold leaf, 1988, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 57 x 40.5 cm

ÂŁ750

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Sun Signatures etching, aquatint and carborundum with gold leaf, 1988, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 58 x 39.5 cm

ÂŁ750

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Le Crete Senesi, Orcia screenprint and woodblock, 1995, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 127 x 106.5 cm

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The Homeric Hymn to Hermes (small version) screenprint and woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 56.5 x 67.5 cm

£750

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Untitled screenprint and woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 56.5 x 67.5 cm

£750

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Persephone etching, aquatint and carborundum, 1985, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 86.5 x 76 cm

ÂŁ850

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Untitled screenprint and woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 67.5 x 56.5 cm

£850

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Le Crete Senesi, Castello screenprint and woodblock, 1995, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 127 x 106.5 cm

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Fruits of Dionysos etching, aquatint and carborundum, 1985, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 70 x 65.5 cm

ÂŁ850

10. Liknon woodcut, etching, aquatint and carborundum, 1985, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 86.5 x 76 cm,

£750

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11. Untitled screenprint and woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 67.5 x 56.5 cm

£750

12. Untitled screenprint and woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 56.5 x 67.5 cm

£750

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13. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes screenprint & woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 120 x 122 cm,

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14. Dionysos Anthios (small version colour variant) screenprint and woodblock, 1992, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 67.5 x 56.5 cm

£850

15. Seed Mantra (Variation) soft-ground etching, 1978, artist’s proof ed 14, signed, 87.5 x 65 cm

£950

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16. The Doctrine of Signatures lift-ground etching, 1988, artist’s proof ed 10, signed, 56 x 78 cm

ÂŁ850

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The title refers to Demeter the classical Greek goddess of the harvest, the fertility of the earth, the seasons, fecundity etc. Tilson spells out her name DEMETRA on the canvas employing letters of the ancient Greek alphabet and depicts at least two other of her symbols, three ears of wheat and a torch.

Demeter was exhibited at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery (1991) and Joe Tilson Works 1961-1991, Waddington Galleries (1992). Reproduced Waddington Galleries catalogue 17. Title (p.19) and the monograph Tilson (p.162) published

by Thames & Hudson. medium, date, artist’s proof ed, signed, 00 x 0 cm

£45,000

17. Demeter (diptych) Oil on canvas on wood relief, 1990, 221 x 221 cm The work is signed, inscribed and dated ‘DEMETER / Tilson 1990’ on the reverse.

£45,000

18. The Software Chart Questionnaire Set of six screenprints, five on wove paper and one on silver foil, all with title, signed justification and text. The screenprint on foil is scratch signed. All bound with metal ring binders. Presented in a wooden slipcase box with a design screenprinted in red and yellow on the front.

From the edition limited to 150 copies, signed on the justification and also signed and numbered by the artist, label on reverse of box, 1968, box 58 x 52 cm

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