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To Insert: Person and Ladder (Red) / Hose / Smoke; Flowers and Plates (Blue Hope), 1991

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Medium

color photogravure with aquatint and spitbite on Somerset wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 69.85 × 48.26 cm (27 1/2 × 19 in.)

sheet: 88.3 x 62.2 cm (34 3/4 x 24 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1998.40.8

Artists / Makers

John Baldessari (artist) American, 1931 - 2020

Lothar Osterburg (printer) American, active late 20th century

Image Use

lower left in graphite: O.K.T.P.; lower right in graphite: BALDESSARI

embossed lower right: [Crown Point Press]; embossed lower right: [Lothar Osterburg]

Kathan Brown, San Francisco, California; acquired 1998 by the National Gallery of Art

Brown, Kathan

2009: Hurowitz, Sharon Coplan. John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonné of Prints and Multiples, 1971-2007. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2009, no. 57.

To Insert: Person and Ladder (Red) / Hose / Smoke; Flowers and Plates (Blue Hope), 1991