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River Avon Mud Drawings, 1998

From Sequences
Three grano lithographs on Rives rag paper. Each print 50 x 40 cm (19¾ x 15¾ in), each signed and numbered. Edition of 60 + X.

Set EUR 4,000

This three-part edition by Richard Long is a poetically condensed visualization of natural processes. The works were created by dipping paper into the fine mud of the River Avon – a river near Bristol, where Long grew up and continues to live – creating unique, organic patterns: sediment lines, delicate branching and amorphous concentrations. Through an interplay of material, time and gravity, Long transforms ephemeral material into a lasting, almost meditative image. In this body of work, conceptual art merges with a deep rootedness in the landscape itself – as trace, as imprint, as a quiet chronicle of becoming.