Liliana Porter

The Line
1973

A pencil drawing of a hand with the index finger extended downward, touching the tip of a thin, vertical line that extends from the fingertip towards the bottom of the image, on a cream-colored paper with rough edges. The artist's signature is visible in the lower right corner.
A pencil drawing of a hand with the index finger extended downward, touching the tip of a thin, vertical line that extends from the fingertip towards the bottom of the image, on a cream-colored paper with rough edges. The artist's signature is visible in the lower right corner.

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Date
1973

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photoetching and graphite pencil

Dimensions
Sheet (irregular): 26 1/4 × 24in. (66.7 × 61 cm) Image (composition): 13 5/8 × 5 5/8in. (34.6 × 14.3 cm) Image: 11 3/4 × 11 3/4in. (29.8 × 29.8 cm)

Accession number
2011.88

Edition
Edition possibly 50

Publication
Printed by New York Graphic Workshop; published by Liliana Porter

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Liliana Porter courtesy of Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

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