Untitled #2

1988, printed 2020

Sunil Gupta

Associated Names
Sunil Gupta

Artist, Canadian, born India, 1953

Two men are shown in an urban environment. The man in the foreground is visible from the waist up, standing sideways with his head slightly turned towards the viewer. He has short-cropped hair and a mustache, and wears a blue denim jacket over a yellow shirt with light-washed jeans and a black belt. Behind him, another man leans against a graffiti-covered wall, wearing a brown leather jacket over a white shirt, light denim jeans, and black shoes. The background includes a building with large windows and graffiti-covered walls, creating an urban and artistic ambiance. A black-and-white photograph in the image shows the side profile of a person wearing a police helmet, and a text block in the center adds atmospheric details.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    inkjet print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36 in.)
    sheet: 65.41 × 111.76 cm (25 3/4 × 44 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.23.2

  • Copyright

    © Sunil Gupta


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sunil Gupta, London; (Hales Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2022.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in graphite: Untitled #2 / from 'Pretended" Family Relationships / Edition #1/5 + 1 A/P / © Sunil Gupta / 1988/2020; on recto, center right in negative: At night, in / this dark and neon- / flaring street, cars / splash puddles / of fragrant / diesel, caught / in a headlamp flow, / and the memory / of a moment's / pause (shaped / like a curving / leg) is fanned by / a hungry upward / turning, half- / transparent blaze / of flaming red


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