Animal Spirit: P.1-2018

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Animal Spirit

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Perry, Grayson
Printer: Paupers Press
Publisher: Paragon Press

Entities

Print

Categories

Print

Description

This striking image of an enormous bull-bear hybrid with lolling tongue and enlarged phallus and scrotum is set against a sea of oil wells, with great fissures in the earth beneath its paws. Its exposed interior, like a diagram of cuts in a butcher’s shop, functions as a map of pronouncements, all based on reason or logic.
Other objects in the image - three crows perched on its back, a naked baby on the ground between its legs, a man hanging from a tree lower left and a shooting star in the sky above - make reference to Perry’s discovery of the fact that today’s financial traders still use the graphic systems and language employed by Japanese rice traders of the 16th century. Certain patterns have fanciful names such as ‘Hanging Man’, ‘Abandoned Baby’, ‘Three Black Crows’ and ‘Shooting Star’.

Legal notes

Given by Charles Booth-Clibborn in honour of Craig Hartley

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2018) by Booth-Clibborn, Charles

Dating

21st Century
Production date: AD 2016

Note

Etching printed in blue ink, 39/68, published by Paragon Press and printed by Mike Taylor and Simon Marsh at Paupers Press.

Components of the work

Sheet Height 635 mm Width 773 mm

Techniques used in production

Colour printing
Etching

Related exhibitions

Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009 – 2019

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1-2018
Primary reference Number: 227176
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 16 May 2019 Updated: Monday 19 October 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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