Collection Isola Sacra

Isola Sacra

Anne Poirier , Artist Patrick Poirier , Artist
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About the Artwork

Isola Sacra

1973

Anne Poirier (Artist) French, born 1942 Patrick Poirier (Artist) French, born 1942

Ink and pressed vegetation on handmade paper in bound book

Overall: 12 1/2 × 9 7/8 × 1 inches (31.8 × 25.1 × 2.5 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection

2023.287

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Signed, in ink, lower right of title page: Anne et Patrick Poirier

Hand inscribed title page, in black ink: l'ISOLA SACRA | Nécropole du Port de Rome | près d’ OSTIA-ANTICA | de l’autre côté de Tibre | INSCRIPTIONS | Moulages et quelques relevès | faits en suite au travail d’OSTIA. | avant de partir eu Sicile - | du 15 Mars au 1er Avril 1973

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1974, sold by (Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France);
1974-2020, purchased by Gilbert B. Silverman [1925-2016] and Lila Silverman [1933-2020] (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
2020-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA), accessioned to the collection in 2023

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Published References

Kvaran, Gunnar B. and Jon Hendricks. After the Beginning and Before the End: Instruction Drawings From the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit. Exh. cat., Bergen Kunstmuseum. Bergen, 2001, cat. 558, p. 172.

The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Exh. cat., Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, 1981, p. 65.

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Anne Poirier; Patrick Poirier, Isola Sacra, 1973, ink and pressed vegetation on handmade paper in bound book. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2023.287.

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