The Fallen Easel
Contemporary Art
On View:
PUBLISHER
Cirrus
MEDIUM
Lithograph and Silkscreen on ragcote paper and 5 pieces of photo-sensitized aluminum
DATES
1987
DIMENSIONS
Overall: 74 × 95 in. (188 × 241.3 cm)
Top-metal: 17 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (43.5 × 10.5 cm)
Top-metal: 4 1/8 × 26 3/8 in. (10.5 × 67 cm)
Top-metal: 4 1/8 × 63 1/8 in. (10.5 × 160.4 cm)
Top-metal: 4 1/8 × 39 5/8 in. (10.5 × 100.7 cm)
Top-metal: 4 1/8 × 28 7/8 in. (10.5 × 73.4 cm)
Left board: 14 5/8 × 67 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (37.1 × 171.5 cm)
Gun panel (p (show scale)
SIGNATURE
in pencil lower right "2/35" lower left in pencil "Baldessari 88"
INSCRIPTIONS
Verso each piece stamped lower right "Cirrus Editions Ltd., Multiples Inc. c 1988"
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
1989.42a-i
CREDIT LINE
Gift of IBM Gallery of Science and Art
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
John Baldessari (American, 1931–2020). The Fallen Easel, 1987. Lithograph and Silkscreen on ragcote paper and 5 pieces of photo-sensitized aluminum, Overall: 74 × 95 in. (188 × 241.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of IBM Gallery of Science and Art, 1989.42a-i. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1989.42a-i.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: 2/35
IMAGE
overall, 1989.42a-i.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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RIGHTS STATEMENT
© John Baldessari
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