Not Manet's Type

2001

Carrie Mae Weems

Artist, American, born 1953

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    offset photolithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • 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


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