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How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?

Raymond Pettibon, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, and others

How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?

2000

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How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?

Raymond Pettibon, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, and others

How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?

How Comes It So Great a Silence Has Fallen?

2000

Physical Qualities Color brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 498 x 362 mm. (19 5/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the portfolio "Plots on Loan I"
Credit Line Women's Committee Acquisitions Endowment for Contemporary Prints and Photographs
Object Number 2000.56.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2000; Brooke Alexander, New York
Ann Shafer, "On Paper: Alternate Realities," September 21, 2014 - April 12, 2015.
Storr, Robert, Dennis Cooper and Ulrich Loock. Raymond Pettibon; New York: Phaidon Press, Inc., c. 2001.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "1/35"; lower right in graphite: "Raymond Pettibon 2000"

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TILL THE SKY TURNS BLUE
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Till the Sky Turns Blue
2000
HOW MUCH WORRIES THIS CHARMING FACE HAS CAUSED ME!...
Honoré Daumier, Aubert & Cie., and others
How much worries this charming face has caused me!...
1848
"I BOUGHT THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE"
Raymond Pettibon, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, and others
"I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge"
2000
Comes Chow Time
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Comes Chow Time
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WHEN I SEE THE BLIND
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When I See the Blind
2000
AMAZING, DURING ALL THIS HASSLE ABOUT EMPERORS AND KINGS, HERE IS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND WHO SHOWS A RESOLUTE CHARACTER AND DECIDED TO GIVE BIRTH TO HER EIGHTH DAUGHTER. - WHAT STRENGTH OF CHARACTER!
Honoré Daumier
Amazing, during all this hassle about emperors and kings, here is the Queen of England who shows a resolute character and decided to give birth to her eighth daughter. - What strength of character!
1848
WE SEEM TO GATHER THAT SHE WAS YOUNG
Raymond Pettibon, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, and others
We Seem to Gather that She Was Young
2000
How the Fleet Comes to its Moorings
William Lionel Wyllie
How the Fleet Comes to its Moorings
c. 1920
SNAP
Raymond Pettibon, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, and others
Snap
2000
ROBERT MACAIRE, SOLLICITOR. - WE'VE WON, MY DEAR FELLOW, WON ON EVERY COUNT! - AND ABOUT TIME TOO. A CASE WHICH HAS LASTED TEN YEARS AND HAS RUINED ME! - BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! - HOW MUCH DID I GET BACK IN THE END? - HERE YOU ARE: THE COURT AWARDED YOU 12'000 FR, WE TOTALLED 13'500 FR IN EXPENSES, YOU ONLY OWE ME 1'500 FR. - BUT THAT MEANS I LOSE 1'500 FR . - YES, BUT YOU'VE WON YOUR CASE.
Honoré Daumier
Robert Macaire, sollicitor. - We've won, my dear fellow, won on every count! - And about time too. A case which has lasted ten years and has ruined me! - Better late than never! - How much did I get back in the end? - Here you are: The court awarded you 12'000 Fr, we totalled 13'500 Fr in expenses, you only owe me 1'500 Fr. - But that means I lose 1'500 Fr . - Yes, but you've won your case.
1836