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There’s a tragedy on Broadway and it isn’t Electra

Guerrilla Girls

There’s a tragedy on Broadway and it isn’t Electra

1999

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There’s a tragedy on Broadway and it isn’t Electra

Guerrilla Girls

There’s a tragedy on Broadway and it isn’t Electra

Guerrilla Girls

There’s a tragedy on Broadway and it isn’t Electra

1999

Physical Qualities Offset lithograph, Sheet: 279 × 216 mm. (11 × 8 1/2 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the "Portfolio Compleat"
Credit Line Women's Committee Acquisitions Endowment for Contemporary Prints and Photographs
Object Number 2015.47.60
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2015; the artists

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Guerrilla Girls

American, New York based, originated 1985

American, New York based, originated 1985
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PRINTS, DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS
DISTURBING THE PEACE (FRENCH VERSION)
Guerrilla Girls
Disturbing the peace (French version)
2009
A GOOD HUSBAND. - A TOTAL OF 27 FR. 50 CTS. - VERY GOOD. TAKE THE BILL TO MY WIFE WHO'LL PAY YOU... - (THIS RIGHT BEGGAR MACAIRE ISN'T HALF CONTENT TO HAVE A WIFE TO PAY HIS DEBTS!)... - YES, I'VE AN EXCELLENT WIFE WHO WORKS LIKE A SLAVE, DEPRIVES HERSELF OF EVERYTHING, WHO SACRIFICES HER LIFE FOR ME... A WIFE WHO ADORES ME. BUT I'M NOT UNGRATEFUL. SHE ALREADY HAS EIGHT CHILDREN AND I'D LIKE HER TO HAVE TWELVE... - (BERTRAND) THERE'S A HAPPY WOMA
Honoré Daumier
A good husband. - A total of 27 Fr. 50 Cts. - Very good. Take the bill to my wife who'll pay you... - (this right beggar Macaire isn't half content to have a wife to pay his debts!)... - Yes, I've an excellent wife who works like a slave, deprives herself of everything, who sacrifices her life for me... a wife who adores me. But I'm not ungrateful. She already has eight children and I'd like her to have twelve... - (Bertrand) There's a happy woman!!!
1837
EH, EH... IT APPEARS THAT I AM QUITE STRONG! - OH, MY GOD, YOUR COAT SURELY ISN'T! IT'S TORN IN THE BACK!
Honoré Daumier
Eh, eh... it appears that I am quite strong! - Oh, my God, your coat surely isn't! It's torn in the back!
1843
HERE STARTS THE TRAGEDY
Daniel A. Heyman and Cindi Royce Ettinger
Here Starts the Tragedy
2006
FROM HERE THE TRAGEDY STARTED
Daniel A. Heyman and Cindi Royce Ettinger
From Here the Tragedy Started
2006
TO IMAGINE THAT NEXT YEAR I WILL BE EXHIBITED AND THAT EVERYBODY IN PARIS WILL SEE ME...IT IS KIND OF FLATTERING, ISN'T IT DEAR!...
Honoré Daumier, Maison Martinet, and others
To imagine that next year I will be exhibited and that everybody in Paris will see me...it is kind of flattering, isn't it dear!...
1859
THE MOTHER - ISN'T HE CUTE LICKING HIS BARLEY SUGAR CANDY!!!...ONE WOULD THINK A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY YEARS!... HE ABSOLUTELY MUST BECOME A LAWYER...
Honoré Daumier, Aubert, and others
The mother - Isn't he cute licking his barley sugar candy!!!...One would think a young man of twenty years!... He absolutely must become a lawyer...
1838