Figures I-XI
1988
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
portfolio with eleven prints in softground etching and aquatint on Somerset Soft White paper
Dimensions
overall: 53.2 × 42.5 × 2.6 cm (20 15/16 × 16 3/4 × 1 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.103-113
Art Historical Context
**Figures I-XI** (1988) by British sculptor Tony Cragg is captivating portfolio of eleven prints, showcasing his fascination with the human form reimagined through abstract, organic shapes. Created during a pivotal year when Cragg won the Turner, this work bridges his renowned three-dimensional sculptures—often twisted, mutable masses of everyday materials—with the intimate, reproducible world of printmaking. Housed in the National Gallery of Art as a generous gift from pioneering print publisher Kathan Brown, the measures 53.2 × 42.5 × 2.6 cm and exemplifies Cragg's exploration of form in the...
About the Artist
Tony Cragg
Sir Tony Cragg (b. 1949) is a British sculptor whose career, spanning more than five decades, has traced a remarkable arc from early assemblages of found industrial materials to large-scale works of virtuosic formal invention in bronze, steel, glass, and wood. Born in Liverpool, Cragg worked as a laboratory technician for the British Rubber Producers Research Association before pursuing formal art...