Double-Nose/Purse/Punching Bag/Ashtray
started 1968, published 1970
Artist, American, born Sweden, 1929 - 2022
Publisher
Collaborator & Supervisor, American, born 1931
Collaborator & Supervisor, American, active late 20th century
Artwork overview
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Medium
multiple of screenprinted redwood box, containing cowhide bag with reversible zipper and bronze, deerskin-covered artist's book, 20 wooden discs with stamped ink additions, and redwood chips
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (.a, closed): 20.96 × 52.71 × 38.1 cm (8 1/4 × 20 3/4 × 15 in.)
overall (.a, open): 38.1 × 52.71 × 38.1 cm (15 × 20 3/4 × 15 in.) -
Accession
1981.5.120.a-w
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Catalogue Raisonné
Gemini online raisonne, no. 38.20; Axsom/Platzker, no. 71 (artist's book only)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 1981 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1984
Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Yonago City Museum, Japan; Machida City Museum of Graphics Art, Japan, 1984-1989, no. 17.
2012
Modern Lab: The Box as Form, Structure, and Containter, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.
Bibliography
1966
Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 257.
2011
Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 38.20. http://www.nga.gov/gemini
Inscriptions
a) "Gemini G.E.L." burned on bottom of box; b) "35/75" stamped on bronze; c) "Oldenburg" artist's book, colophon, artist's hand, graphite; "AP 25/25" colophon, artist's hand, graphite.
Wikidata ID
Q63860762