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Vorticist composition, yellow and green (formerly 'Gulliver in Liliput')
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1885-1963
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Width: 36.8 cm
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The posthumous title identifies the ‘giant’ as Gulliver rupturing the bonds placed on him by the Lilliputians. Given the time of its creation, the drawing may allude to human vulnerability in the face of an unstoppable destructive force.
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Exhibition History
Drawings Gallery Display - Helen Saunders, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2022-29/01/2023
Women in Abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 05/05/2021-23/08/2021 ...More
Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 02/11/2019-23/02/2020
New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 17/03/2015-21/06/2015
Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20/02/1997-26/05/1997
Blast, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 18/08/1996-03/11/1996; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 15/11/1996-26/01/1997
Helen Saunders (1885-1963), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 09/01/1996-03/03/1996; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 16/03/1996-20/04/1996
Vorticism and its allies, Hayward Gallery, London, 27/03/1974-02/06/1974 ...Less
Literature
Peppin, Brigid, and Cork, Richard, Helen Saunders (1885-1963), exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Graves Art Gallery ,Sheffield, 1996
p. 46
ill. on p. 42
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, grey ink, signed with the artist's initials: “H.S.”. Cardboard support, Recto: right centre, blue ballpoint, underlined: “TOP.”; left centre, blue ballpoint: “734”.
Collector's mark: none.
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