Allen Jones (1937) - Kneeling woman

Allen Jones (1937), Kneeling Woman, 1972.

Offset in color on silver-metallic wallpaper, 57.7 x 50 cm. Ed. Marburg, Xartwall, circa 1972, not signed.

Provenance: Private collection, Berlin.

Condition: Age-appropriate condition. Creases at the top and bottom image edges. Otherwise very fresh in color. Illustrations are part of the condition description.

About
The “Right Hand Lady” or Kneeling Woman wallpaper is an early example of how Pop Art and design intersect: it was produced in 1972 as a color offset or color print on silver metallic wallpaper and appeared as part of the X-Art-Walls edition of the then-renowned German Marburger wallpaper factory.
The X-Art-Walls series was an avant-garde project in which works by contemporary artists were realized as artistically crafted wall coverings – a hybrid between an artistic multiple and functional interior design. In addition to Allen Jones, artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely were involved.

Biography
Allen Jones (born 1937 in Southampton) is a British Pop Art artist and one of the defining figures of European Pop Art of the 1960s. After studying at the Royal College of Art in London, he developed a distinctive, provocative visual language that combines advertising, fashion illustration and erotic figuration.
Internationally known, Allen Jones gained prominence through his figurative works, especially the iconic sculptures Chair, Table and Hatstand (1969), in which female bodies are staged as functional furniture objects. These works sparked intense art-theoretical debates about objectification, gender representation and consumer aesthetics, and made Jones a key figure of British Pop Art.
Besides paintings and sculptures, Jones produced numerous print editions, multiples and design projects – including the 1972 X-Art-Walls edition for the Marburg wallpaper factory. Allen Jones’s graphics, editions and sculptures are represented in major museums worldwide and well established on the secondary market.

With his blend of glossy aesthetics, erotica and social critique, Allen Jones is regarded as an important representative of a European, figuratively pointed Pop Art stance.