- Unidentified Man, Unidentified Location (#3)
Frame: 78 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (198.8 × 107.3 × 6.4 cm)
Explore Further
While many of her peers adopted strategies
of appropriation and reproduction to emphasize the banality and uniformity of
newspaper, magazine, and television imagery, Sarah Charlesworth had a different
goal. In 1979 and 1980, she combed wire-service archives and the New York
Public Library for an uncommon subject: falling figures. Trimmed to remove all
context and enlarged to human scale, each photograph was titled only with the
name of the falling figure and location (if known), leaving the viewer to
wonder whether it depicted a leap to safety, a suicide, or a Hollywood stunt,
and to ponder more existential questions.
ProvenanceEstate of the artist, 2018; [Paula Cooper Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History"Sarah Charlesworth: Stills," Art Istitute of Chicago, September 18, 2014 - January 4, 2015. [other print]
"Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld," New Museum, New York, June 24 - September 20, 2015. [other print]
"Sarah Charlesworth," Paula Cooper Gallery, February 23 - March 23, 2019
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black on applied label, verso of frame backing, top right: PAULA COOPER GALLERY // 524 W 26TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10001 // SARAH CHARLESWORTH // Unidentified Man, Unidentified Location (#3), 1980 // black and white mural print // 78 x 42 in. (198.1 x 107.3 x 6.4 //cm) // Estate stamp at bottom right corner // SCHA-139-PH.1
Printed in red on applied label, verso of frame backing, bottom center: SQUID FRAMES // 168 7th Street #2A // Brooklyn, NY 11215 // Tel: (718) 499-1584 // EMAIL: squidframes@gmail.com // U.V. PLEXIGLASS
Printed in black with embossed stamp on applied label, verso of frame backing, bottom center: SARAH CHARLESWORTH ESTATE // [image of the work] // SARAH CHARLESWORTH ESTATE NEW YORK [circular embossed estate stamp] // Unidentified Man, Unidentified Location (#3) // 1980 // Black and white mural print // 78 in. x 42 in. // #1 from an edition of 1 + 1 AP // From the series Stills // Produced by the Estate in 2018
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