Sherrie Levine

After Joan Miro
1985

Abstract artwork featuring a composition of various shapes and lines with a playful use of color and texture. Central elements include a large black shape resembling a semicircle with a red dot, a squiggly red line with a small black circle, and a black starburst figure at the top. The background is speckled with small dots of color, and the image is bordered by a white margin.

Abstract artwork featuring a composition of various shapes and lines with a playful use of color and texture. Central elements include a large black shape resembling a semicircle with a red dot, a squiggly red line with a small black circle, and a black starburst figure at the top. The background is speckled with small dots of color, and the image is bordered by a white margin.

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Date
1985

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor, graphite pencil and opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 13 7/8 × 10 7/8in. (35.2 × 27.6 cm) Image (Sight): 7 7/16 × 5 3/4in. (18.9 × 14.6 cm)

Accession number
P.2011.234

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

Rights and reproductions
© 1989 Sherrie Levine
© Sherrie Levine. Courtesy of Paula Cooper

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Exhibitions

Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

Nov 20, 2015–Mar 6, 2016

Sherrie Levine
26 works in the collection

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