'In Vacant or Pensive Mood'

'In Vacant or Pensive Mood' 1987 a signed limited edition original print: silkscreen and coloured lithograph on deckled edged and trimmed paper: 305 x 305mm by Ernest Alfred Dunn (born 1937) inscribed A/P and signed in carbon pencil to lower centre. Created in 1987 at the Royal College of Art as part of a mixed folio of work by artists studying there at the time. Float mounted and complete with a square-cut overmount with twin agate lines and a bevel fillet insert within a closed-corner stepped hand-painted white frame and glazed with an overall size of 552 x 538mm.  He was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire and is a printmaker and sculptor. He studied initially at the Barnsley and Leeds Schools of Art before going on to the Royal College of Art in London where he later taught, and went on to become a senior tutor. He exhibited his abstract forms and lithographs regularly at Redfern Gallery in London and also extensively in Germany and Italy. His works are in the permanent collections of museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, Peter Scott Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.