It was the fourth time that Daddy had fallen for the exploding fork routine…

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Glen Baxter was born in Leeds and studied at Leeds College of Art from 1960-5. His first exhibition was held at Gotham Book Mart Gallery, New York in 1974. He taught at the Victoria & Albert Museum from 1967 to 1974, and then at Goldsmiths College from 1974 to 1986. He has exhibited internationally and has works in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The artist has published numerous books, including ‘Almost Completely Baxter’, ‘New and Selected Blurtings’ in 2016 and ‘Ominous Stains’ in 2009, and has also appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue.

Places

Subjects

man, girl, dining/eating, fork, knife, plate, chair, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Glen Baxter (1944 - )

Title

It was the fourth time that Daddy had fallen for the exploding fork routine…

Edition

180/200

Date

1984

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Nigel Greenwood Gallery, October 1986

Inscription

below image: 180/200 / Glen Baxter '84

GAC number

16572