Four posters and prints including Finks Circus, Ignatz paints his world, Nimrod 10, and Cold Chisel, ca. 1980-1982 / by Martin Sharp

PXX 40

fonds

ca. 1980-1982

Graphic Materials, Posters, Prints

913940

4 prints (1 folder) - screen prints, coloured - 102.0 x 75.8 cm, or smaller

Previously owned by Hogarth Galleries, Paddington, N.S.W.

Four colour posters and prints, ca. 1980-1982:

1. Finks Circus, 1980
Signed and dated 'SHARP ?80' in ink in lower margin at right.

2. Ignatz paints his world, 1980
Editioned 31/50 in ink in lower left of image. Signed and dated 'SHARP .80' in ink in lower right of image. Titled in ink in lower centre of image.

3. Nimrod 10, [ca. 1980]
Signed 'S', printed in image at lower right.

4. Cold Chisel. An evening with the circus animals. Wentworth Pk. [i.e. Park], April 17-18, $10.80 $11.80 Mitchells Bass, [1982]
Signed 'S', printed in image at lower right.

Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years

Titles taken from posters or prints

Ignatz was a character featured in the comic strip "Krazy Kat" (1913-1944) drawn by American cartoonist George Herriman (1880-1944). The comic strip was about a cat and its unrequited love for Ignatz, a mouse.

Reference:
Biography Reference Bank, WilsonWeb. http://www.hwwilson.com/ (accessed 20 January 2011).
Transferred from PXD 1075, 10 November 2023

The Nimrod Theatre celebrated its tenth anniversary in 1980.

Cold Chisel released their fourth studio album "Circus Animals" in January 1982. They performed "An evening with the circus animals" circus shows at Wentworth Park, Sydney on 17 and 18 April 1982.

References:
Radic, Leonard, "Noises off at Nimrod", The Age, 5 August 2002. http://www.theage.com.au/ (accessed 20 January 2011)
Cold Chisel. http://www.coldchisel.com.au/ (accessed 20 January 2011)

PXX 40 /1 Finks Circus - upper right edge torn