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Sherrie Levine, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, James Miller, Maurice Sánchez, Peter Blum Edition

After Duchamp

1988

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Sherrie Levine, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, James Miller, Maurice Sánchez, Peter Blum Edition

After Duchamp

1988

Physical Qualities Color woodcut, Sheet: 925 x 655 mm. (36 7/16 x 25 13/16 in.) Image: 610 x 458 mm. (24 x 18 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore; and the Nathan L. and Suzanne F. Cohen Contemporary Art Fund
Object Number 1991.70.1
Sherrie Levine, in her words, melts down images of iconic artworks to create these geometric woodcut prints that explore ideas of originality and authorship, which are frequently entangled with gender in the patriarchal framework of Western art history. Here, she took reproductions of four works by canonical male artists—Claude Monet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Piet Mondrian, and Marcel Duchamp—and scanned them into a computer program that averaged their chromatic information to 12 pixels. These woodcuts reproduce those digital color palettes using ink. Unlike the other works on view, Cohen did not collect or live with these particular prints at home. Rather, she and her late husband Nathan L. Cohen established a fund that enables BMA curators to grow and diversify the contemporary art collection, with purchases such as this one.
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

On Certainty: Gifts from the Collection of Suzanne F. Cohen

Artist

Sherrie Levine

1947-01-01 00:00:00

born Hazleton, PA 1947
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Printer

Derrière L’Étoile Studios

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James Miller

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Maurice Sánchez

American, active 1980s
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Publisher

Peter Blum Edition

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