Figures XI
1988
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one of a set of eleven prints: color softground etching and aquatint on Somerset Soft White paper
Dimensions
sheet: 39.3 × 46.8 cm (15 1/2 × 18 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.113
Art Historical Context
**Figures XI** by Tony Cragg (1988) invites visitors into the sculptor's imaginative world through printmaking. As the eleventh in a set of eleven color prints, this work captures Cragg's fascination with organic, abstracted human forms—a hallmark of his career in New British Sculpture. in 1949, Cragg rose to prominence in the 1980s for transforming everyday materials into dynamic, biomorphic shapes that blur the line between figure and landscape. Created during a pivotal moment in his practice, *Figures XI* reflects the era's exploration of form and perception, bridging sculpture's three-dime...
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...