Cat. No. 555/VI
Tête à l'envers
- State/Variant:
- State VI of VI
- Date:
- 2009
- Alternate Title:
-
Face with Spiral Eyes
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "Upside Down Head"
- Themes:
- Faces & Portraits, Spirals
- Techniques:
- Aquatint, Drypoint, Engraving
- Description:
- Drypoint, engraving, and aquatint, with red colored pencil additions
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 8 7/16 x 10 7/8" (21.5 x 27.6 cm); sheet: 13 1/4 x 15 1/4" (33.7 x 38.7 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state VI
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition at any state.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state V, by burnishing: linear elements of female nose removed.
Changes from state V, by scraping: portions of shading removed from eyelids and lips.
Changes from state V, in engraving: iris and lower eyelid reinforced.
Changes from state V, in drypoint: male lips further delineated.
Additions in red colored pencil: top of head drawn over uninked portion of composition; lower eyelids and irises reinforced. - Other Remarks:
- According to a printer's incription on the verso of this impression, the white portion in the upper center of the composition was caused by "ink removal [...] with solvent prior to printing."
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1575.2012
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Tête à l'envers
2001-2009
Source
2001
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Untitled
Ink, pencil, correction fluid, and cutouts on paper
2001
Ink, pencil, correction fluid, and cutouts on paper
2001
States
State I of VI
2001
2001
State II of VI
2001
2001
State III of VI
2001
2001
State IV of VI
2001
2001
State IV of VI, variant
2001
2001
State V of VI
2001
2001
State VI of VI
2009
2009
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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