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Donald Hamilton Fraser
Still Life - Toys, 1996
Silkscreen on Paper
540mm x 665mm x 2mm
Edition of 200
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'Still Life- Toys' - A signed, limited edition 26 colour silkscreen print by Royal Academician Donald Hamilton Fraser. Fraser uses the surreal nature of the objects depicted to play with...
'Still Life- Toys' - A signed, limited edition 26 colour silkscreen print by Royal Academician Donald Hamilton Fraser.
Fraser uses the surreal nature of the objects depicted to play with our notions of scale. The toys are shown out of the setting we would expect, against a stark background rather than a nursery, givng the toys a sense of melancholy and grandeur that is quite startling.