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Tate’s Frieze Acquisitions Announced

October 10, 2012 by Marion Maneker

The Tate announces this year’s Frieze acquisitions from the Outset Fund:

The Fund, which this year celebrates its 10th Anniversary, enables Tate to acquire works by emerging artists for the national collection from London’s Frieze Art Fair. 86 works by 57 significant international artists have been collected since 2003. This year the £150,000 made available by the Fund is the highest ever.

Hideko Fukushima (1927-1997)

Ko 8 1963

Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 96.5 cm

From Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

 

Nicholas Hlobo (born 1975)

Balindile I 2012

Inner rubber tube, ribbons, canvas, hosepipe, steel, 160 x 50 cm (dimensions variable)

From Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg

 

Caragh Thuring (born 1972)

Arthur Kennedy 2012

Oil and graphite on linen, 121.9 x 182.9 cm

From Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Jack Whitten (born 1939)

Epsilon Group II 1977

Oil on canvas, 161.3 x 161.3 cm

From Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

 

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