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This collage is titled "Dante at the Match" and it is based on Phillips' 50th birthday celebration match at the Oval cricket stadium. The invitation on the right side is headed "Tom Phillips and the Rest of the Art World" and lists the players, bowlers, batsmen and umpires, the rest of the art world and those who attended.The left side has collaged fragments of Tom's portraits, a picture of his birthday cake, and a newspaper article that states an urn of Dante's ashes were discovered in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This collage is titled "Dante at the Match" and shows newspaper images of Phillips at bat, the crowd of participants in his 50th birthday celebration at the Oval and a photograph with Frank Auerbach and others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This painting depicts a portrait of Pella Erskine-Tulloch in Phillips' studio holding a handbound edition of Phillips' "Dante's Inferno." Tom Phillips describes this painting in "The Portrait Works" as follows: "The title of the picture 'The Dante Binding' refers to the book on which the sitter rests her arms. It was the last thing in the picture to be painted since it did not exist until the final three or four sittings. During the months this portrait took to paint, Pella Erskine-Tulloch and I were involved in designing the three volume binding for the Talfourd Press edition of Dante's Inferno. This sample blank volume was the final prototype. It was a triumphant moment in which the silkscreen cloth and spine-titling I had designed came together in her superbly structured binding: the mere presence of the book (replacing substitute books in earlier sittings) was enough to resolve the picture and propel it towards completion. Dante appears elsewhere in the portrait in the...

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This exhibition included the maquette for "The Ruined Book" by N. Bell and B. Langlands. A copy of "The Ruined Book" is held by the Sackner Archive. Books by Johanknecht, Campbell and Tilson reproduced in this catalogue are held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.