print;
artist book
- Museum number
- 2014,7080.1.9
- Title
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Object: Untitled
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Series: One Cent Life
- Description
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Abstract image consisting of two large areas of silver, one covering most of the top half of the sheet and one at the bottom in the shape of a crown. There are uneven areas of orange beneath the silver in the top half of the sheet, and in the space between the two silver areas. The image is framed by uneven orange lines, which the silver overlaps in some areas. 1964
Colour lithograph on white wove paper
- Production date
- 1964
- Dimensions
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Height: 399 millimetres (image, approx, irreg)
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Height: 410 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 297 millimetres (image, approx, irreg)
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Width: 582 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- One of 62 original lithographs by 28 international artists in the unbound artist book 'One Cent Life' by Walasse Ting, edited by Sam Francis (1964) (2014.7080.1(1-62)). It is printed on page 28, on the same sheet as another lithograph by Smith (2014,7080.1.13; p. 37). Ting's poems 'Secluded Sadness' and 'Girl Next Door' are printed on the verso of the sheet (p. 27 and p. 38) along with some images taken from American advertisements (p. 38).
For more information about 'One Cent Life', see the Curatorial Comment for 2014.7080.1.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Walther Koenig Books at Frieze Masters. Presented by the Vollard Group.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7080.1.9