Sex Rocks

1989

Al Taylor

Associated Names
Al Taylor

Artist, American, 1948 - 1999

Niels Borch Jensen

Printer, Danish, born 1952

Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne

Publisher

Dan Albert Benveniste

Printer, Danish, born 1966

Mette Ulstrup

Printer, active, Denmark, 1989

This print displays an abstract arrangement of irregular oval shapes. A thin horizontal line divides the print into two halves. In the center of the top half is a long, thin oval shape surrounded by smaller pebble-like forms are scattered around the central figure. In the lower half are two large oval shapes with a grouping of smaller shapes near the bottom right corner. Along with these shapes, there are also areas where the off-white paper has gray tints, creating cloud-like shapes.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint, etching, spitbite aquatint, and open bite etching on Zerkall Bütten paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Debbie Taylor

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.13 × 23.18 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 48.9 × 35.24 cm (19 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.112.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Taylor 2013, 47

  • Portfolio Title

    Ten Common (Hawaiian Household) Objects

  • Copyright

    © The Estate of Al Taylor; Reproduced by permission.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

artist; by inheritance to his widow, Debbie Taylor, New York, NY; gift to National Gallery of Art, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

2013

  • Semff, Michael, and Debbie Taylor, eds. Al Taylor Prints:Catalogue Raisonne. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2013: 109, no. 47.

Inscriptions

lower left, beneath plate in graphite: 12/15; lower right, beneath plate, signed and dated in graphite: Al Taylor '89; verso, lower left in graphite: AT (PR-89.08)

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