DETAIL : COLOGNE SCHOOL Germany Virgin and Child with Saints [Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints (left panel) Virgin and Child with Saints (left panel)]
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Mark DI SUVERO | T'ang
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Mark DI SUVERO
China born 1933
to United States of America 1941
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T'ang October 1977
steel
torch-cut steel plate, 5 pieces
one of an unnumbered edition of 50 plus 20 special proofs, 5 artist's copies, 5 publisher's copies, 3 Gemini G E L impressions, 4 trial copies, 1 right to print proof
"5/8" [1.6 cm] hot rolled steel plate was torch-cut from an optical pattern. The heat burr was removed with a steel grinder, and both sides were wire brushed. The artist's initials were then stamped into the sculpture using a hydraulic press and a stamp made by the artist from plow steel." (Gemini G E L documentation, NGA file 82/0389, folio 119)
37.8 (h) x 32.7 (w) x 1.6 (d) cm
installation variable
piece 5, inscribed, u.r., "di S", inscribed using a hydraulic press, not dated
Purchased 1978
NGA 1979.2460
© Courtesy of the Artist and Spacetime CC.
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Provenance
  • Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, publisher, 1977-78;

  • from whom bought by the Australian National Gallery, May 1978
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