Richard Hamilton, A brief libation (Illustration for James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, 1989)

Heliogravure, aquatint and burin engraving on Hahnemühle paper
32.3 x 25.5 cm
Signed and numbered 3/12. Edition: 24 + 2 artist’s proofs (12 with Arabic numerals and a further 12 with Roman numerals contained in the portfolio ‘IRELAND A NATION’)
Published by Waddington Graphics, London; printed at Atelier Crommelynck, Paris
With labels: The Alan Cristea Gallery, London, and Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Literature:
Lullin 2003, 159
Coppel 2002, 80
Exhibition history:
1998, 19 Jul-18 Oct, Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, ‘Richard Hamilton: Subject to an Impression ‘, nº 57, reprod. p.34
2001, 10 June-16 Sept, Ljubljana, Cankarjev Dom Galerija, ‘Imaging Ulysses’, nº 96
2001-2002, 10 Nov-13 Jan, Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, ‘Imaging Ulysses’, nº 96
2002, 2 Feb-19 May, London, British Museum, ‘Imaging Ulysses’, nº 96, reprod. p.150
2002, 13 June-15 Sept, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, ‘Imaging Ulysses’, nº 96
2003, 10 May-31 Aug, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, ‘Imaging Ulysses’, nº 96