Two People Dancing in Mexican Masks

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

Derek Boshier was born in Portsmouth and attended Yeovil School of Art (1953–57), and the Royal College of Art (1959–62) where he was one of a younger generation of British Pop Artists. He worked in media including painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture. Major group exhibitions featuring his work include Art and the Sixties at Tate Britain (2004) and Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery (2007). In 1980 Boshier was invited to take up a Professorship at the University of Houston, Texas. He died in his home in Los Angeles in 2024.

Places

Mexico

Subjects

dance, night, moon, man, woman, mask

Materials & Techniques

etching

Artist

Derek Boshier (1937 - 2024)

Title

Two People Dancing in Mexican Masks

Portfolio Title

35 Artists Printmaking, Folio 1

Edition

33/50

Date

1983

Medium

Etching

Acquisition

Purchased from the Royal College of Art, August 1985

Inscription

below image: 33/50 "Two People dancing in Mexican Mask" / DB 1983

GAC number

16378/C