Allen Jones (1937) - Kneeling woman

Allen Jones (1937), Kneeling woman, 1972.

Color-offset on silver-metallic wallpaper, 57.7 x 50 cm. Ed. Marburg, Xartwall, c. 1972, not signed.

Provenance: Private collection, Berlin.

Condition: Age-appropriate condition. Tears along the upper and lower image edges. Otherwise very colour-fresh. Images 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 interlocked: in 1972 it was produced as a color-offset or color print on silver metallic wallpaper and appeared within 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 designed wall coverings — a hybrid between artistic multiples 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 Artist and counts among the formative figures of European Pop Art of the 1960s. After studying at the Royal College of Art in London, he developed an independent, provocative visual language that merges advertising, fashion illustration, and erotic figuration.
Internationally, Allen Jones became known for 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 portrayal, and consumer aesthetics, and made Jones a key figure in British Pop Art.
In addition to paintings and sculptures, Jones produced numerous prints, multiples, and design projects — including the 1972 X-Art-Walls edition for the Marburg wallpaper factory. Allen Jones prints, editions, and sculptures are represented in major museums internationally and well established on the secondary market.

With his combination of glossy aesthetics, eroticism, and consumer critique, Allen Jones is regarded as an important representative of a European figurative Pop Art position.