Conservative “Midsummer Madness” Party, Bath, Avon

1986–1989

Martin Parr

Associated Names
Martin Parr

Artist, British, 1952 - 2025

Peter Frazier

Printer, British, born 1953

The image shows a group of people at an outdoor gathering. Two men stand and a woman sits in the foreground. The man on the left is shown from the knees up, holding a drink. He has short, dark hair and is wearing a dark suit with a light-colored shirt and tie. The man on the right is engaged in eating from a plate he holds with his left hand, while his right hand handles the fork. He has a receding hairline and is wearing a light-colored suit with a green shirt and dark tie. The woman is seen from the waist up, with gray hair and a green and white patterned dress with a beaded green necklace. Another person with curly white hair is seated partially visible. In the background, an elderly man in glasses, wearing a suit, sits among more people on folding chairs next to a brick wall and wooden fence, with a tiled roof structure and leafy shrubbery completing the setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.67 × 33.02 cm (10 1/2 × 13 in.)
    sheet: 30.48 × 40.64 cm (12 × 16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.80.2

  • Copyright

    © Martin Parr, Courtesy Rocket Gallery


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Parr, Bristol, UK; NGA purchase (through Rocket Gallery, London), 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, upper left in black ink: Martin Parr, Cost of Living 1986-89 printed 1992.


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