Glenn Ligon

No. 316 (European)
1988

A textured painting with a dark background featuring white stenciled text that reads "EUROPEAN To see one in your sleep denotes economic slavery -316-" at the top and "To quarrel with one denotes loss" at the bottom.
A textured painting with a dark background featuring white stenciled text that reads "EUROPEAN To see one in your sleep denotes economic slavery -316-" at the top and "To quarrel with one denotes loss" at the bottom.

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Date
1988

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Oil, acrylic, oil stick, and graphite on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight, Irregular): 30 × 22 1/2in. (76.2 × 57.2 cm)

Accession number
2024.172

Series
Dreambook

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Glenn Ligon

API
artworks/37861

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