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Lot's Wife

Lot's Wife, 1996

  • Kiki Smith, American, born 1954

Silica bronze with steel stand

  • Overall: 81 × 29 × 26 inches (205.7 × 73.7 × 66 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from the Friends of Modern Art

1997.43

Department

Contemporary Art after 1950

Details

The artist

Blackhawk, Terry. The Light Between. Detroit, 2012, pp. 55-56.

Kiki Smith, Lot's Wife, 1996, silica bronze with steel stand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from the Friends of Modern Art, 1997.43.

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