Not Manet's Type
2001
Artist, American, born 1953
Publisher

Artwork overview
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Medium
offset photolithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 42.86 × 42.86 cm (16 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
sheet: 101.6 × 50.8 cm (40 × 20 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3336
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Charles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings, Portland, Connecticut); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2003
Black is a Color: African American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, 2003-2007, no. 39
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: 29/40; lower right in graphite: Carrie M. Weems 2001; upper verso in graphite by unknown hand: SPC 01-07
text on plate:
It was clear, / I was not Manet's type / Picasso -- who had a way / with women -- only used me / & Duchamp never even / considered me
Markings
embossed lower right: [Segura Publishing Company]
Wikidata ID
Q77010272