print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 2014,7067.65.1
- Title
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Object: Untitled
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Series: A History of Communism
- Description
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Elderly woman's face with saw and scissors placed on either side of her head; plate 1 from the portfolio 'A History of Communism', a suite of 45 prints with title-page and colophon, published by the artist, housed in a black solander box; British Museum proof. 2012
Lithograph and etching on Zerkall white paper
- Production date
- 2012
- Dimensions
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Height: 840 millimetres (image)
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Height: 940 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 630 millimetres
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Width: 710 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is a proof set for the British Museum outside the edition of 10. Published by Jim Dine.
Berlin-based lithographic printers Sarah Dudley and Ulie Kuhle alerted Dine to the existence of 100 litho stones still with images on them made by forty years of students of a Socialist art academy in former East Germany. Dine asked them to reactivate the stones and had them all printed out. From these he made a selection of 45. Dudley and Kuhle editioned the lithographs and then sent them to the artist in Walla Walla, Washington, where he worked on them every summer for two and a half years with the etchers Julia D'Amario, Aurélie Pagès and Kathy Kuehn.
See catalogue: 'Jim Dine, A History of Communism', with an essay by Dr Gwendolyn Sasse, (Steidl, 2014, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 10 September-7 October 2014).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7067.65.1