About the Artwork
Not Manet's Type
2001
Carrie Mae Weems (Artist) American, born 1953 Segura Publishing Co., Inc. (Publisher) Founded 1990
Photolithograph printed in black-brown ink on wove paper
Sheet: 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 cm) Framed: 42 5/8 inches × 22 5/8 inches × 2 inches (108.3 × 57.5 × 5.1 cm)
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African American Art
Museum Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
2002.135
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed, lower right: Carrie M. Weems, 2001
Inscribed in pencil, lower left: 11/40 Inscribed, upper left corner, verso: SPC C1-07 Text printed below the image as part of the composition: IT WAS CLEAR, | I WAS NOT MANET'S TYPE | PICASSO -- WHO HAD A WAY | WITH WOMEN - ONLY USED ME | & DUCHAMP NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED ME Signed and dated in pencil, lower right: Carrie M. Weems, 2001
Drystamp of Segura Publishing Co. Inc., lower right corner
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2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery
Carrie Mae Weems, Not Manet's Type, 2001, photolithograph printed in black-brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 2002.135.
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