Untitled
1991
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1991
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1991 ink by Prunella Clough, depicting Knife, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of thin lines—some sharp, some smudged—on a pale gray background. The shapes look like shadows of wire fences or scaffolding, but they don’t quite add up to anything real. Clough spent years walking London’s streets after World War II, collecting scraps of urban life. She turned those ordinary sights into abstract marks, as if the city’s edges had been rubbed onto paper. This etching is from a series called *Shadow Play*, where she tested how little line you need to suggest depth. If you like how she turns nothing into something, look up etching—it’s how artists scratch metal plates to hold ink.
Prunella Clough (14 November 1919 – 26 December 1999) was a prominent British artist.
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