Hiroshi Murata

Untitled

1987

Two overlapping geometric shapes, one solid black and one hatched with diagonal lines, tilted on white background.
Two overlapping geometric shapes, one solid black and one hatched with diagonal lines, tilted on white background.

Hiroshi Murata, Untitled, 1987. Lithograph, sheet: 9 13/16 × 12 3/4 in. (24.9 × 32.4 cm) Image (irregular): 7 3/4 × 10 5/16 in. (19.7 × 26.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art 2011.24.28

Recto

Not on view

Date
1987

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 12 3/4 in. (24.9 × 32.4 cm) Image (irregular): 7 3/4 × 10 5/16 in. (19.7 × 26.2 cm)

Accession number
2011.24.28

Edition
6/140 | 10 APs

Publication
Printed by Atelier Franck Bordas; published by American Abstract Artists

Credit line
Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/38664

Part of a series:
American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio
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Hiroshi Murata
2 works in the collection, 1 exhibition

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