Grayson Perry Rare tea towel - Brown print

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Note: This auction is for the brown print, not blue as in the picture Limited edition tea towel by the Turner prize winning artist Grayson Perry. These tea towels were produced solely for the charms of Lincolnshire exhibition, they are of an adult theme. These tea towels were produced on white cotton with blue or brown print. This auction is for the brown printed version The tea towel is produced on white cotton with blue print The Charms of Lincolnshire 16 7 July - 12 August 2006 Grayson Perry was born and grew up in rural Essex. Living and working in London the artist's practice has largely dealt with metropolitan themes. The Charms of Lincolnshire allows Perry the possibility to think and create work about the countryside. This is not a historical exhibition about Lincolnshire. It focuses on the Victorian era and themes that have a strong emotional charge for the artist such as death, childhood, religion, folk art, hunting and the feminine. From thousands of items in the collections Perry has selected categories of objects around each theme and in response to them has created new works, including pots, ceramics, embroidery, photography and for the first time pieces in cast iron. "My initial idea was to focus these themes around an unknown artist, a mentally ill (Victorian) farmer's wife driven insane by the loss of her children. read more

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