Brodsky & Utkin

Ship of Fools or a Wooden Skyscraper for the Jolly Company
1988

An intricate etching featuring a central triangular composition filled with faces surrounded by architectural and scaffolding details, with text at the bottom reading "A Ship of Fools or a Modern Skyscraper for the 21st Century."
An intricate etching featuring a central triangular composition filled with faces surrounded by architectural and scaffolding details, with text at the bottom reading "A Ship of Fools or a Modern Skyscraper for the 21st Century."

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Date
1988

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 42 5/8 × 30 5/8in. (108.3 × 77.8 cm) Plate: 29 1/4 × 21 13/16in. (74.3 × 55.4 cm)

Accession number
97.70.22

Edition
17/30 | 10 APs, 2 TPs, 2 PPs, 1 BAT, 3 HCs, 3 Exhibition proofs, 1 European Exhibition proof

Publication
Printed by K. Caraccio Printmaking Studio; published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc.

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ruth and Richard Shack

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/11401

Part of a series:
Projects
35 works

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