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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Grayson Perry, Reclining Artist, 2017

Grayson Perry

Reclining Artist, 2017
Etching in colours on wove paper
70.3 x 102.7 cm
Signed by the artist and numbered on the reverse from the edition of 58
96985
£ 10,000.00 was £11,250
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'This is me, both as artist and model in my studio. I wanted to make something in the tradition of the reclining nude. I'm hoping it will be popular with...
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'This is me, both as artist and model in my studio. I wanted to make something in the tradition of the reclining nude. I'm hoping it will be popular with educated middle-class people who might enjoy spotting the art-historical references within it. Reclining Artist is both an idealised fantasy and also the messy reality. It is perhaps me expressing my desire to be a sex object and also show off my cultural capital and boyish paraphernalia. The sofa is draped in a test piece of my 2011 tapestry Map of Truths and Beliefs. Alan Measles, my teddy bear and metaphor for masculinity and god, appears as a sculpture, as an inflatable and on a dress hanging on the wall. The cat is called Kevin' (Grayson Perry).
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