Hannah Wilke - Editions New York Tuesday, June 8, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    This print, Hername (inspired by an earlier painting of 1978), creates a descriptive self-portrait of the artist using her first name to spell out sixteen words in each plate, such as "archangel", "epiphany", and "fragile".

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Hername

1978-91
Etching (from sixteen individual plates), on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (59.1 x 46.4 cm);
S. 36 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (92.1 x 66.7 cm)

signed, dated `78-91' and numbered 29/30 in pencil, published by Volatile Editions and Mark Patsfall Graphics, Cincinnati (with their inkstamps on the reverse), in excellent condition, unframed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $1,875

Editions

8 June 2010
New York