Designed and executed by Magdalena Abakanowicz
Polish, born 1930
Poland
Hanging Entitled "Le Feu et La Cendre" (Fire and Cinders), 1973/75
Linen and sisal, discontinuous weft plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, supplementary wrapping wefts and some ground wefts forming cut and uncut weft pile; self-patterned by ground weft floats; appliquéd with smaller rectangle of same weave, wrapped cord, yarn bundles forming cut pile and three-dimensional form in a knotting technique known as macramé
134.2 x 183.4 cm (52 3/4 x 72 1/4 in.)
Bequest of Hugh C. Johnson, 1998.555
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