Frank Bowling

Read all reviews

Mirror

1964-6
  • Contemporary living room
  • Cosy living room
  • Reading corner
  • Hallway
  • Scandinavian kitchen
  • Traditional kitchen
  • Contemporary bedroom
  • Rustic bedroom
  • Contemporary living room
  • Cosy living room
  • Reading corner
  • Hallway
  • Scandinavian kitchen
  • Traditional kitchen
  • Contemporary bedroom
  • Rustic bedroom
Frank Bowling: Mirror

More about print types

More about frames

Please choose your print options above
From:
£30
Join as a Member and save 10%
Add to wishlist Shop more Frank Bowling
Product added to wishlist
View wishlist
From: £30
Join as a Member and save 10%
Please choose your print options above
Add to wishlist Shop more Frank Bowling
Product added to wishlist
View wishlist
Free delivery from £60
Mirror, 1964-6 is one of Frank Bowling’s early masterpieces. The artist has explained the piece as capturing his experience as an artist at that particular moment in time. The spiral staircase is from the Royal College of Art, where Bowling studied, and in the painting it ‘serves as an entry to another culture’. Surrounded by aspects of contemporary design and fashionable Op Art, Bowling depicted his then wife in between two figures that represent himself. The top figure Bowling has described as an ‘entity split off from myself, who is always on the verge of pulling the whole edifice down.’
  • Artist Frank Bowling
  • Artwork Mirror
  • Exhibition Frank Bowling
  • Date of work 1964-6
  • Credit Original: Oil paint on canvas 310 × 216.8 cm Tate. Presented by the artist, Rachel Scott, and their 4 children: Benjamin and Sacha Bowling, Marcia and Iona Scott 2013 © Frank Bowling. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023
Frank Bowling (born 1934) moved to Britain in his late teens from Guyana, and studied painting at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj and Derek Boshier, graduating in 1962 with the Silver Medal in painting. Bowling’s work combines figuration, abstract elements, contemporary and autobiographical references with intense experimentation and exploration of the possibilities of paint. He was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005, and awarded an OBE in 2008. He continues to work in his studios in New York and London.
  • Product Code S21186
Reviews
Delivery & returns

Delivery & returns

DELIVERY TIMES

We aim to deliver custom prints within 1-2 weeks. For international orders, delivery may take 2-4 weeks.

As each print is handmade to order they take a little longer to prepare. We’ll dispatch your order as soon as it is ready, separately from any other items.

REFUNDS & RETURNS

As custom prints are made to order, unfortunately we cannot accept returns if you have changed your mind or made a mistake.

If we have made a mistake, or there is a problem with your order, then please contact our customer service team at at shop@tate.org.uk.

Here’s more information on refunds & returns.

Delivery & returns

DELIVERY TIMES

We aim to deliver custom prints within 1-2 weeks. For international orders, delivery may take 2-4 weeks.

As each print is handmade to order they take a little longer to prepare. We’ll dispatch your order as soon as it is ready, separately from any other items.

REFUNDS & RETURNS

As custom prints are made to order, unfortunately we cannot accept returns if you have changed your mind or made a mistake.

If we have made a mistake, or there is a problem with your order, then please contact our customer service team at at shop@tate.org.uk.

Here’s more information on refunds & returns.