Simon Norfolk
Aluminum waste pond at Petkovici. In the afternoon and evening of 14th July 1995, hundreds of Bosnian men and boys were taken to the embankment of the dam and executed

cropped recto of sheet

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Aluminum waste pond at Petkovici. In the afternoon and evening of 14th July 1995, hundreds of Bosnian men and boys were taken to the embankment of the dam and executed
cropped recto of sheet
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Aluminum waste pond at Petkovici. In the afternoon and evening of 14th July 1995, hundreds of Bosnian men and boys were taken to the embankment of the dam and executed
  • from the series Bosnia: Bleed
Date2004–2005, printed 2010
Place depictedGornji Petkovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 19 3/16 × 24 in. (48.7 × 61 cm)
 Sheet: 23 × 27 7/8 in. (58.4 × 70.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Philip Greider
Object number2014.897
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by Philip Greider, Los Angeles, 2010; given to MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink on verso lower right: 15-Sept-10
Stamp and signature on Authentification Certificate in Accession File: simon-norfolk / 444-020-7254-9620 (impressed) / Simon Norfolk (ink)
Stamped in a rectangle on verso lower right with additional marks in ink: printed under my direct supervision / archival digital c-type print / [signature] / fecit / edition number 1/10

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