A Nicely Built City Never Resists Destruction, 1995

Not on View

etching, aquatint, and drypoint in black on wove paper

plate: 29.53 × 37.78 cm (11 5/8 × 14 7/8 in.)

sheet: 42.55 × 64.45 cm (16 3/4 × 25 3/8 in.)

2015.19.3193

William Kentridge (artist) South African, born 1955

Caversham Press (publisher) founded 1985

lower center in plate: A NICELY BUILT CITY NEVER RESISTS DESTRUCTION; lower left in graphite: 38/50; lower right in graphite: W Kentridge

embossed lower left: CC

(Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Brown, Robert
Corcoran Gallery of Art

2006: Krut, David, and Susan Stewart. William Kentridge Prints. Johannesburg, South Africa: David Krut Publishing, 2006, p. 53.