Delphic

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Prunella Clough studied art at Chelsea School of Art where Henry Moore was one of her tutors. After the war she studied at Camberwell College of Art until 1949, and held her first solo exhibition at the Leger Gallery, London in 1947. In the 1950s, aware of the drabness of post-war Britain, her paintings reflected a preoccupation with modern landscape and machinery. In the 1960s, Clough regularly exhibited her increasingly abstract paintings and prints in solo and group shows, notably at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1960), the Serpentine Gallery (1976) and the Camden Arts Centre (1996). In 1999, the year of her death, Clough was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting, an official recognition of a lifetime’s work that was long overdue. A touring retrospective of her work was held at Tate Britain in 2007; and in 2016, a solo exhibition was held at The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings.

Places

Subjects

abstract, psychoanalysis

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999)

Title

Delphic

Portfolio Title

Freud Museum Tenth Anniversary Portfolio

Edition

45/100

Date

1996

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 57.50 cm, width: 51.20 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Freud Museum, December 1998

Inscription

below image: 45/100 / Clough

Provenance

Freud Museum

GAC number

17371/3