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        "primaryTitle": "The Life and Adventures of Glenn Ligon a Negro",
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        "dated": "1993",
        "classification": "Prints",
        "department": "African American Art",
        "medium": "etching printed in black ink on dark cream chine colle on white wove paper",
        "dimensions": "Plate: 21 5/8 × 15 1/2 inches (54.9 × 39.4 cm)\r\nSheet: 28 × 21 inches (71.1 × 53.3 cm)"
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    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund",
        "provenance": "1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed, lower right: Glenn Ligon '93",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed in pencil, lower left of the white wove sheet: 26/45\r\nSigned and dated in pencil, lower right of the white wove sheet: Glenn Ligon '93",
        "markings": "Drystamp, lower right corner of white wove sheet: BURNET / EDITIONS; watermark: ARCHES"
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            "nationality": "",
            "bio": ""
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            "copyright": "© Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles",
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