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Derek Boshier: One (1967) + !Manifesto! (1969)

DB - One 1967 copy

//One, Derek Boshier, 1967. Screenprint, 22.5 x 31″//

It’s always a delight to encounter fresh artworks by a favourite artist, and Derek Boshier’s print One from 1967 is no exception.

This thrilling, contrastingly gridded abstract graphic piece didn’t pop up in the thousands of works I viewed while compiling the Boshier monograph Rethink/Re-entry over recent years, but appeared out of the sky blue among my eBay searches last week.

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//!Manifesto!, Derek Boshier and Christopher Logue, 1969. Screenprint, 40 x 25.5″//

One stems from the period immediately after Boshier had foresworn painting and shares use of shape and synthetic colour with !Manifesto!, one of the three designs for poster poems Boshier produced with the late Christopher Logue in the late 60s.

Those posters were collected in the recent show at London’s Rob Tufnell Gallery.

This print of One – number 51 of 70 – is available to buy on eBay here for $500.

Rethink/Re-entry is available in all good physical and online bookshops and here.

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