About the Artwork
Repair/Retouch Series: An Allegory About Wholeness (Plate and Man with Crutches)
1976
John Anthony Baldessari
1931 - 2020
American
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Gelatin silver prints
Overall (each): 7 1/4 × 11 7/16 inches (18.4 × 29.1 cm) Framed (each): 15 × 24 inches (38.1 × 61 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection
2023.235
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Markings
Upper left print: inscribed, in center, verso: 1 [inscribed in a circle] Upper left print: inscribed, lower left, verso: #7263 Lower left print: inscribed, in center, verso: 1A [inscribed in a circle] Lower left print: inscribed, lower left, verso: #7263 Upper right print: inscribed, in center, verso: 2 [inscribed in a circle] Upper right print: inscribed, lower left, verso: #7263 Lower right print: inscribed, in center, verso: 2A [inscribed in a circle] Lower right print: inscribed, lower left, verso: #7263
Provenance
1977, sold by (Sonnabend Gallery, Inc., New York, New York, USA);1977-2020, 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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The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Exh. cat., Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, 1981, p. 56.
Baldessari, John, and Coosje van Bruggen. John Baldessari: [Publ. On the Occasion of the Retrospective Exhibition Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art ..., March 25 - June 17, 1990 ...]. New York: 1990, pp. 184-185 (ill.).
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John Anthony Baldessari, Repair/Retouch Series: An Allegory About Wholeness (Plate and Man with Crutches), 1976, gelatin silver prints. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2023.235.
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