"First Flight": P.96-2020.3

Titles

"First Flight"

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette

Entities

• Print

Categories

• Print

Description

Etching on Somerset Soft White Velvet, 300gsm

One of a set of 10 etchings.
Head of a black boy with short hair in almost three-quarter profile to the left and looking down slightly, his mouth half open. A 'ruff' sketched out in delicate lines around his neck.

Notes

History note: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, London; Corvi-Mora Gallery, 1a Kempsford Road, London, SE11 4NU from where purchased by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Place(s) associated

• London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2020-06-11) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

21st Century
Production date: AD 2015

Note

Edition 3/10. "First Flight" accompanied Yiadom-Boakye’s acclaimed solo exhibition, _Verses After Dusk_ at the Serpentine Gallery in the Summer of 2015. Each plate depicts a single, Black, male figure wearing the ruffs of feathers that have become a familiar motif in her work. Each man, appearing in profile or three-quarter view, has been drawn from memory, imagination or from found imagery such as photographs, and is not a portrait of a particular individual. Of slightly different generations, the men have varying facial expressions: some appear contemplative, others amused, some perhaps in the middle of speech.

School or Style

British