- Title:
- An Ideal Home (Diptych)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Kilometre Theatre and Seven Other Seminal Architectural Projects
- Date:
- 1998
- Materials & Techniques:
- Screen print on 400gsm Somerset Satin white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 35 × 29 inches (88.9 × 73.7 cm), Image: 35 × 58 inches (88.9 × 147.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered upper left to lower right: "Beyond the fitted kitchen cum picture | window ensemble based loosely covered | ref. misinterpreted Bonnard/Monet | moment, and the sensational belgian | butcher's chopping block conversion | into a skylight fixture, we address | the microwave digi diner/cool deep |freeze type LA longing pad in line | with three balanced flues, one patio | door onto sundeck sundial suburban | submerged in spurge situations, is | what makes today's master bedrooms | with revived ensuite bathrooms in | avocado overlooking llama skin-lined | conversation pits retro ref. p.v.c. | lolla-bout so unappealing, particularly | in converted knocked through | victorian propped up planted and | lit habitattily brick "I've got the | wrong end of the stick" shit houses."
Signed in graphite, lower right: "Bruce McLean"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1999.3.7
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:33475
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Bruce McLean, Born 1944, British, An Ideal Home (Diptych), 1998
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