Bathroom - fig. 1, 1997

About this edition, which Schellmann Art published for documenta X, Richard Hamilton said: "This print is among my first attempts to directly output an edition from work done on a graphics computer. The image derives from the Seven Rooms paintings now being shown at documenta – ⁠stark spaces, which I felt invited habitation. Inspired by a visit to an exhibition of late Degas paintings, I decided for a woman rising from her bath. Bathroom is complex in that a level of geometric abstraction is added to the surface. This is intended to flatten a representation of space so strongly accented that the areas of unbroken color have a hard time in holding their own. The fluidity of blurred photographic texture adds another dimension to the room – a psychological layer emerges into view."