I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
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Richard Hamilton

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, 1967


Dimensions
83.8 x 109 cm
Physical Description
Screenprint on woven paper
Inventory Number
LG 121 D
Acquisition
On permanent loan from a private collection Frankfurt since 2014
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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Richard Hamilton chose a famous film scene as the subject of this work. 'White Christmas', with music by Irving Berlin, was the most popular feature film in America in 1954. And yet Hamilton's reference is not an exact repetition of the cinema hit but an adaptation of it, in which he reproduces the subject as a screen print in the inverted colours of a colour negative. Hamilton examined this scene in numerous variations over a period of several years and rendered it using different techniques and colour variations. The elevation of a popular medium, film, to art was one of the abiding themes of the British artist, who is regarded as having established Pop Art in Britain.

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15.11.2024