About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 397
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- E. L. T. Mesens
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Title
- Alphabet Deaf (Still) and (Always) Blind
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Place
- Belgium (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1957
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Medium
- Collage composed of gouache on cut-and-pasted, wove, corrugated, and foil papers, laid down on cardboard
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Inscriptions
- Signed, titled, and dated, along bottom: "Mesens / ALPHABET SOURD (encore) / ET (toujours) AVEUGLE 15/1957"; inscribed, verso: "At the entry of this work / in the collection of Edwin / and Lindy Bergman, I / make the promss [sic] to give / them a collage when they / will already possess five / of them. Bargain or joke? / But very sincerely / E.L.T. Mesens / 13th May 1959 (line through) / 13th April 1959"
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Dimensions
- 33.4 × 24.1 cm (13 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
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Reference Number
- 2018.342
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels
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