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Jock and the Tiger Cat

John Byrne, c. 1968

© DACS, London 2007

This is a powerful example of Byrne's naive figurative approach, and was commissioned in 1978 by Mrs Johnstone whose name is drawn on the floor of the windowless room, as if in chalk. The distortion of scale and form, and the suggestion of symbolism in the carefully placed objects, gives the work a disquieting and surreal quality.

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Title of artwork, date

Jock and the Tiger Cat, c. 1968

Date supported

1992

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

102 x 76 cm

Grant

8500

Total cost

15000

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