LOT DETAILS

Materials:

The complete set of nine etchings, on chine coll to Arches paper

Size Notes:

21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in

Description:

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Markings:

All signed, dated and numbered 36/45 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs)

Literature:

FollowGlenn Ligon gained prominence in the early 1990s as a pioneering artist whose incisive work exploring of the contemporary American experience utilized the methods and legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. Embracing an intertextual approach; Ligon incorporates works from the arts; literature; history; and his own life to investigate American society and its inequities. Though he began his career as an abstract painter; he began incorporating text into his work in the mid-1980s to better articulate his political concerns and his ideas about racial identity and experience. He samples writing from famed Black writers including James Baldwin; Zora Neale Hurston; and Ralph Ellison; among other authors.