The Gift and the Inheritance (“Shakespeare’s Works”)
1989
Artist, American, born 1944

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with rubbing on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 56.1 × 63.7 cm (22 1/16 × 25 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.34.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York; to Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg, Beverly Hils, CA, February 1990; gift to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18 - June 30, 1991
1996
Where's Al? Magasin, Centre National d'Art contemporain, Grenoble, October 19, 1996 - January 5, 1997
2007
Allen Ruppersberg One of Many - Origins and Variants, Kunsethalle Dusseldorf, Dusselfdorf, December 11, 2005 - February 19, 2006, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, April 8 - May 28, 2006, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, June 22 - September 24, 2006, Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, November 15, 2006 - January 2007
2009
Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or The Art of Give and Take, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, September 12 - December 19, 2009
Inscriptions
Not signed. Not dated.
Markings
None.
Watermarks
None.