About this artwork
The black hole that appears in so many of Bontecou’s relief sculptures of the early 1960s dominates Fifth Stone, whose monumental size also mimics the artist’s wall reliefs. In the print, however, the black void and its concentric bands fill nearly the entire sheet, suggesting, as one early critic imagined, “wells, tunnels, sequestered and mysterious places … [or] the central point around which the cosmos circulates.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Lee Bontecou
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Title
- Fifth Stone
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1964
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Medium
- Lithograph from two stones in yellow and black ink on cream wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 93 × 70 cm (36 5/8 × 27 9/16 in.); Sheet: 105.2 × 75.6 cm (41 7/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 1982.97
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