Amy Sillman, Jef Scharf

SATIRE

1999

An orange satirical print showing two distorted faces and the word "SATIRE" with definition.
An orange satirical print showing two distorted faces and the word "SATIRE" with definition.

Recto

Not on view

Date
1999

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching, aquatint, and screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 9 in. (28.4 × 22.9 cm) Plate: 5 3/4 × 3 13/16 in. (14.6 × 9.7 cm)

Accession number
2012.136.5

Edition
1/25

Publication
Printed and published by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. New York

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/41744

Part of a series:
Funny-Guy, Junior
12 works

A lone figure stands near an overturned canoe with the caption "a bad trip in a national forest."
A person stands beside a body in a coffin with text reading "another way to speak to the dead".
A simple line drawing of a curved serpent-like boat shooting a flame, with the word "asp" below.
Stylized blue and white mountain peaks under a starry black sky with red text "backdrop freeze."
Yellow abstract figure lying above a green line with the text "I am the sole survivor" beneath.
Two hands reach toward a textured black circle above red text 'mere aether'.
A pink inflatable deer-like figure with antlers stands above the printed words "my protector."
A red linocut-style woman holds a rectangular sign, with the words "nuts, jugs, muffs" beneath.
Three skeletal heart shapes float above a grid in a green print labeled "pernicious."
An orange satirical print showing two distorted faces and the word "SATIRE" with definition.

Amy Sillman
26 works in the collection, 4 exhibitions

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Jef Scharf
12 works in the collection

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