Glenn Ligon

Untitled (I am an invisible man)

1992

Not on view

Date
1992

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet: 25 1/8 × 17 7/16 in. (63.8 × 44.3 cm) Plate: 23 7/16 × 15 13/16 in. (59.5 × 40.2 cm)

Accession number
93.35.3

Edition
18/45 | 10 APs, 3 PPs, 1 BAT

Publication
Printed by Burnet Editions; published by Max Protetch Gallery

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award and the Grace Belt Endowed Purchase Fund

Rights and reproductions
© Glenn Ligon
Courtesy of the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles

API
artworks/8375

Part of a series:
Untitled (Two White/Two Black)
4 works

Black poster with embossed dark text beginning "I am an invisible man" against a gray border.
Dark monochrome artwork showing a faint block of printed text, beginning with "I am an invisible man."
Repeating stenciled text reads "I do not always feel colored" in distressed black print.
Bold black stenciled sentence repeats: "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."


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