Julie Mehretu and Gemini G.E.L.
Auguries
2009
Scroll
Physical Qualities
12-part color etching with liftground and spitbite aquatint, Overall: 87 x 179 15/16 in. (221 x 457 cm.)
Credit Line
Sidney M. Friedberg Acquisitions Endowment for Prints and Drawings
Object Number
2012.250
10 colors on 48 plates. Two plates for color etching (inked à la poupée), one plate for liftground aquatint, and one plate for spitbite plus additional liftground aquatint. Top row of panels is taller than bottom row; outside panels are wider than inner panels. 12 panels labelled A-L; only signature panel (L) is chopped with Gemini logo.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase; Gemini G.E.L. and the artist
Kristen Hileman, BMA, Contemporary Wing rotation, 17 November 2012 - 7 May 2013.
Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe, BMA, "How Do We Know the World?," December 21, 2022 - June 26, 2023.
Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe, BMA, "How Do We Know the World?," December 21, 2022 - June 26, 2023.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 272.
Inscribed: lower right panel, lower left in graphite: "SP 2/3"; lower right in graphite: "Mehretu 2010"
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