Bruce Nauman

Life Fly Lifes Flies

1997

White sheet with mirrored hand-drawn words 'LIFE' and 'FLY' repeated in pencil.
White sheet with mirrored hand-drawn words 'LIFE' and 'FLY' repeated in pencil.

Not on view

Date
1997

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 37 1/8 × 27 1/8 in. (94.3 × 68.9 cm) Plate: 29 5/8 × 20 in. (75.2 × 50.8 cm)

Accession number
99.63.5

Edition
53/90 | I-XC APs, 10 PPs

Publication
Printed by Lothar Osterburg Studio

Credit line
Gift of Jean-Christophe Castelli and tribute from the artists in honor of Leo Castelli

Rights and reproductions
© Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/12190

Part of a series:
Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio
10 works

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A layered collage showing an eagle head overlapping a tiger's striped face and a chandelier.
An older man holds a toddler's hand as they walk together in an art gallery.
A colorful pop-art style interior showing a chair, dresser, potted plant, and window.
Large vertical wooden panels with visible grain and a small black-and-white photograph taped in the bottom-right corner.
Large textured black square on a white background with a small artist signature at the bottom right.
Three stick-figure people stand on a pale ground looking up at yellow star constellations.
White sheet with mirrored hand-drawn words 'LIFE' and 'FLY' repeated in pencil.
A bright orange flame rises against smoky black swirls above a platform labeled "Leo Castelli XC".
A black poster displays the quote, "One only finishes the finished work," credited to Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Bruce Nauman
48 works in the collection, 24 exhibitions

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