color lithograph
1968
image: 12 x 28 on paper 31 x 23 1/2
edition: 16
signed in pencil
This image captures a double portrait of a young woman in profile that brings the young Audrey Hepburn to mind. This is a color lithograph created in 1969 and printed in vibrant blue and yellows. It is an edition of just 16 and is pencil signed. Harvey Daniels wrote that: "My work from this time and into the 1970s was written about as Pop art. However, I was never really interested in Pop art ideas, and I didn’t take my images from popular culture. I used personal and intimate objects—things that had a special meaning and emotional charge for me. My images were always autobiographical during this period—my ties, my shoes, and my shapes. I would place these objects in non-realistic structures that were often divided into discrete areas. My style at that time was perfect for print mediums: simple motifs, the division of space into separate units, repetition and, at times, the introduction of photographic imagery."
Harvey Daniels (British, 1936-2013) Born in London, Daniels attended the Willesden School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, London University and Brighton College of Art. He served as Principal Lecturer in Printmaking at Brighton College of Art from 1970-1989. His paintings and prints have been exhibited since the early 1960s in numerous solo exhibitions in the UK, Scotland, Germany, the US, France and Norway. He wrote four books on printmaking, including "Printmaking" (Paul Hamlyn, 1970) and "Exploring Printmaking for Young People" (with Silvie Turner, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972). Daniels’ work is in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Detroit Institute of Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others. His work has described by art historian Norbert Lynton as a “visual carnival.”
