© 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.
More information
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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