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Chiara and Chair

Printer Ian Cartwright British
2004
Not on view
In 2000, when Hamilton was asked to install a painting at the Hôtel du Rhone, Geneva, he immediately thought of Lobby (1985–87)—a work based on a postcard of the interior of a Berlin hotel. Basing this print on a photograph of Lobby in situ, he digitally added the strong perspective lines and the vacuuming nude (a model named Chiara, whose name is close to “chair”). He highlighted the vanishing point, thinking of it as a black hole: “A point in space into which things are drawn and disappear into nothingness,” as he wrote, or, on the other hand, “a way into another dimensionality.”

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Chiara and Chair
  • Artist: Richard Hamilton (British, London 1922–2011 Oxfordshire)
  • Printer: Ian Cartwright (British, active 21st century)
  • Date: 2004
  • Medium: Inkjet (Iris) print
  • Edition: 24/60 + 6 artist's proofs
  • Dimensions: 28 7/8 × 42 1/4 in. (73.3 × 107.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 2004
  • Object Number: 2004.364
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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