Glenn Ligon

Untitled (I am an invisible man. No)
1992

A textured artwork featuring a passage of text in raised, glossy letters against a matte black background. The text appears to be an excerpt from a narrative, beginning with "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe..." The words are arranged in a block paragraph format, and the piece has a reflective quality that makes the text stand out. The bottom right corner has a signature and the year '92 written, indicating the artist's mark and the year of creation.
A textured artwork featuring a passage of text in raised, glossy letters against a matte black background. The text appears to be an excerpt from a narrative, beginning with "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe..." The words are arranged in a block paragraph format, and the piece has a reflective quality that makes the text stand out. The bottom right corner has a signature and the year '92 written, indicating the artist's mark and the year of creation.

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Date
1992

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 25 1/8 × 17 9/16in. (63.8 × 44.6 cm) Plate: 23 1/2 × 15 7/8in. (59.7 × 40.3 cm)

Accession number
93.35.4

Series
Untitled (Two White/Two Black)

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

Publication
Printed by Burnet Editions; published by Max Protetch Gallery

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 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

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