| Artist | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1977 |
| Object type | drawing |
| Medium, technique | watercolour on paper |
| Dimensions | 790 x 580 mm |
| Inventory number | MO.91.21 |
| Collection | Department of Art after 1800 |
| On view | This artwork is not on display |
After 1975, with considerable professional and material success behind him, Jacklin gave up the abstract trend of systematic reduction. The turning-point was 1977, when he quite unexpectedly exhibited figural watercolours – mostly still-lives – with one or more Buddha heads, or a vase, on a table-cloth of geometrical pattern. Jacklin’s main interest was again the motion of light and the change of its nature, but here, unlike earlier, this was connected to solid objective forms. However, he captured the objects, forms, surfaces at a transitional moment at which everything began to turn into its opposite, the ambition to represent turned into abstraction. Rhythmic multiplication, the cross-references of formal elements were the bottomline of these compositions.
Ferenc Tóth
Tóth, Ferenc, A Bryan Montgomery gyűjtemény. Vezető, A Szépművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményei/The Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 3, Szépművészeti Múzeum; The British Council, p. 84-85.
This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.
