Pet Stains
Al Taylor’s Pet Stains series originating from observations made during a stay in a corner flat at a 4-way street crossing on top of a hill in Montmartre, Paris. Spending much of his time on the balcony observing life on the streets below, Taylor became fascinated by the large number of dogs marking their territory in the neighbourhood. He noticed that due to the uneven streets sloping down the hill, the direction the urine would take was very unpredictable. Intrigued by the liquids’ alternation, Taylor started to create drawings by slightly moving puddles of ink on pieces of paper, making the ink run in seemingly random and uncontrolled ways. In the prints from the Pet Stains series, he invented possible names for the dogs responsible for the puddles and created subtle connections by only naming them in pairs: e.g. Tom and Jerry, Ike and Tina. In a strange way, the prints are reminiscent of old maps, maybe of forgotten battlefields.
Dog Fight (Jerry, Jet, Cigarette, etc.), 1991
Price on request- Print technique
- Drypoint Line etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 101 x 69 cm – Plate size 80 x 50 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 20
- Registration no
- AlT 91 011-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Pet Stains (Kirby, Harley, etc.), 1991
Price on request- Print technique
- Drypoint Line etching Spit bite aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 78 x 54 cm – Plate size 50 x 30 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 20
- Registration no
- AlT 91 012-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Pet Stains (Spike, Mess, Bruce, etc.), 1991
Price on request- Print technique
- Line etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 78 x 54 cm – Plate size 50 x 31 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 20
- Registration no
- AlT 91 013-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Pet Stains (Desmond, Imelda, etc.), 1991
Price on request- Print technique
- Drypoint Line etching Spit bite aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 78 x 54 cm – Plate size 43 x 28 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 20
- Registration no
- AlT 91 014-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Pet Stains (Hank, Henry, Dickel, etc.), 1991
Price on request- Print technique
- Drypoint Line etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 107 x 68 cm – Plate size 80 x 50 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 22
- Registration no
- AlT 91 015-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
Dog Fight (Jerry, Jet, Cigarette, etc.), 1991
Price on request- Print technique
- Drypoint Line etching Spit bite aquatint Sugar lift aquatint
- Paper
- Hahnemühle Bütten 350g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 101 x 69 cm – Plate size 80 x 50 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 20
- Registration no
- AlT 91 011-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist