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Patrick Hughes, b.1939

“Present” Rainbow, 1978

“Present” Rainbow is one of a large number of rainbow works produced by British artist Patrick Hughes from the 1970s until the mid-1980s. Placed in improbable locations and situations, including on clothes hangers, sticking from letter boxes and rubbish bins, and as in this work, wrapped up as parcels, Hughes’s screenprinted and painted arcs contradict the rainbow’s naturally transient, fleeting state.

MediumGloss paint on hardboard, collage
Dimensions Unframed, 45.8 x 61.3 x 5 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Gordon Lambert Trust, 1992
Item NumberIMMA.255 GL
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Patrick Hughes, “Present” Rainbow, 1978, Gloss paint on hardboard, collage, Unframed, 45.8 x 61.3 x 5 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Gordon Lambert Trust, 1992

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Patrick Hughes, b.1939

    British painter Patrick Hughes is renowned for his works on perspective and is considered the creator of ‘reverspective’. Since his first solo show in 1961 Hughes has exhibited extensively in Europe and the U.S., including solo exhibitions at Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Soeul, Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, and Flowers Central, London. Hughes taught at Leeds College of Art in the 1960s. He is also a designer and writer and has published books on verbal and visual rhetoric.

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