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Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time

Betye Saar American, born 1926
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About the Artwork

Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time

1998

Betye Saar

born 1926

American

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Ten-color lithograph, hand-coloring, photo-electric collage on paper

Sheet (and image): 27 inches × 22 1/2 inches (68.6 × 57.2 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund

2024.8

Non-commercial all standard museum

Markings

Signed and dated, in yellow pencil, bottom edge, center: Betye Saar 1998

Inscribed, in yellow pencil, bottom edge, left: 35/45 Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time Inscribed, in pencil, verso, bottom edge below blindstamp: 97 - 618 [Printer/publisher number]

Blindstamp, verso, bottom edge center: [hand with three fingers folded down and index finger pointing upwards] [Solo Impression chop mark] Partial watermark bottom right: RIVES | [infinity symbol]

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(Solo Impression, Inc., Bronx, New York, New York, USA);
2024-purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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© Betye Saar. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA.

Betye Saar, Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time, 1998, ten-color lithograph, hand-coloring, photo-electric collage on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, 2024.8.

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