Julie Mehretu
Auguries

Auguries

© Julie Mehretu

Auguries
Auguries
ArtistAmerican, born Ethiopia, 1970
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Auguries
Date2010
Medium12-panel aquatint with spit bite in colors
DimensionsOverall: 87 × 180 in. (221 × 457.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, with additional funds provided by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Margolis, in their honor; and by Melissa and Albert Joseph Grobmyer IV/Puffer-Sweiven, L.P.; Charles B. and Jean G. Smith; Anne S. and Peter H. Brown; Lester Marks in memory of Peter C. Marzio; Mr. and Mrs. William Shiffick; Bettie Cartwright and Colin Kennedy; bequests of Eva K. Kitchen and Robert H. Wilson, Jr.; and the estate of Sue Rowan Pittman
Object number2011.474.A-.L
Non exposé

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"On Common Ground," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–January 14, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
.L) Inscribed in pencil, recto lower left: 8/24
.L) Signed in pencil recto lower right: Mehretu 2010
.L) Embossed recto lower right corner: © [Gemini GEL symbol]

.A-.L)Stamped in brown ink, verso lower left:
Published by Gemini GEL, LLC(raised)
Los Angeles, California
© 2010 Julie Mehretu and GEMINI G.E.L.
JM 10-3478
One of Twelve Panels A/L

(the last line of the stamp reflects the letter of each sheet, i.e., B/L, C/L, D/L, etc.)

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