Sandro Chia
Alla torre (To the Tower)

Alla torre (To the Tower)

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Alla torre (To the Tower)
Alla torre (To the Tower)
ArtistItalian, born 1946
Print studioNew York
PublisherNew York
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Alla torre (To the Tower)
  • from the portfolio Manuale d'Aprile (April Manual)
Date1981
Printed inNew York City, New York, United States
Published inNew York City, New York, United States
MediumEtching, aquatint, and open bite with asphaltum in colors, edition I/X
DimensionsPlate: 11 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (29.8 × 31.4 cm)
 Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/8 in. (76 × 56.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994, museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Object number96.12.2
Non exposé

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance[Peter Blum Gallery, Blumarts Inc., New York, by 1996]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Exhibition History"Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 23, 2006 - October 15, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Numbered in pencil, lower left: "I/X". Watermark, lower right corner: "ARCHES FRANCE" and "AEROPRESS".
Signed and dated in pencil, lower right "Sandro Chia 1981" (signature illegible).

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