John Baldessari

SEEDS

1986

Two children examining a small round object with pins connected by red lines like a constellation.
Two children examining a small round object with pins connected by red lines like a constellation.

John Baldessari, SEEDS, 1986. Photogravure and aquatint, sheet: 26 × 19 7/8 in. (66 × 50.5 cm) Image (upper): 12 13/16 × 19 3/8 in. (32.5 × 49.2 cm) Image (lower): 12 3/4 × 19 3/8 in. (32.4 × 49.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award 87.32.3. © John Baldessari
Permission courtesy of the artist

Recto

Not on view

Date
1986

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photogravure and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet: 26 × 19 7/8 in. (66 × 50.5 cm) Image (upper): 12 13/16 × 19 3/8 in. (32.5 × 49.2 cm) Image (lower): 12 3/4 × 19 3/8 in. (32.4 × 49.2 cm)

Accession number
87.32.3

Edition
12/35 | 10 APs, 1 PP, 1 BAT, 1 Exhibition proof

Publication
Printed by Sally Sturman; printed by Mark Sofield; published by Multiples, Inc.; published by Marian Goodman Gallery

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award

Rights and reproductions
© John Baldessari
Permission courtesy of the artist

API
artworks/7172

Part of a series:
Hegel's Cellar
10 works

A lone person sits in a small rowboat on calm, empty water near the image center.
Row of mounted soldiers riding across an open field above a wide bright blue strip.
Black wrought-iron decorative element overlies a close-up of a grazing horse's legs on green grass.
Two faces leaning together above a black field with circular windows revealing grasping hands.
Two suited men point revolvers at each other across a doorway with a dark center.
Two-panel collage showing a person lying in hay above and an old deep-sea diving helmet below.
Two children examining a small round object with pins connected by red lines like a constellation.
A horse rears and jumps against a wooden fence in a grassy paddock with trees.
Large cheering crowd with raised hands on the left and tightly packed boats on the right, marked with colored dots.
A shirtless person lies face down on the sand with a red stain highlighted beneath them.


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