Lessons in Far Future, 1978

Not on View

Medium

etching in black and red on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.24 × 15.24 cm (6 × 6 in.)

sheet: 38.1 × 28.89 cm (15 × 11 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jay Finkel

Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 671

Accession Number

2013.121.130

Artists / Makers

Leonard Baskin (artist) American, 1922 - 2000

Kennedy Galleries (publisher)

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Inscription

lower center in plate (vertical): Baskin 1978; lower left in graphite: 99/125; lower right in graphite: Baskin

text in plate:
LESSONS IN FAR FVTVRE. / SEE ONE / WHO WEARS NOT / THIS DECADE'S / CLOTHING . NOW QUIET / HVMANS HERD / ESTABLISH TERRITORIES / DEFEND WITH BOMBS / ENJOY {FOR] WAGES] / THE ELECTROCHEMICAL / SATIETY OF NEED. / THE POSSESSED WEAR / BANAL ET WASTED / SYMBOLS / THIS ONE IS AN ARTIST. / TOBIAS BASKIN 1978

Provenance

Jay Finkel, Washington, DC; acquired 2013 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Finkel, Jay

Bibliography

1984: Fern, Alan, and Judith O'Sullivan. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1983. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1984, no. 671.