Permanentszene: Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, Collages, Objects and Texts from 1946-1977

André Thomkins

1978

A linoleum-cut plate included unbound in a 1978 monograph, in which André Thomkins carves a compact, playful scene that stitches everyday objects, dream fragments and cartoonlike figures into a single printed image.

White, incised lines sit against a warm brown field like a drawing transferred to a stage: tilted floorboards and a ladder, a peculiar bird, a radiating sun and a curtained column assemble into a skewed, theatrical space that feels both childlike and uncanny.

By placing a handmade linocut within a book of drawings, watercolors and collages, Thomkins links printmaking to surreal collage and the artist’s book tradition, using reproducible imagery to spread small, poetic assemblages beyond the gallery.

Palette

Art Terms

Linoleum cut Print Illustrated book Edition Multiple Surrealism Figurative

Exhibitions

Contemporary Drawings

1984

Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works

1976

Drawing Now: 1955–1975

1976

Etchings Etc.

1972