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The Library of Babel: The Tower of Babel or Entrance to the Library called Babel with Four Towers

1997

Erik Desmazières

(French, born Morocco, 1948-)
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Culture
France
Medium
Etching and aquatint from the First Suite of ten prints on blue-toned laid paper
Measurements
30.5 x 49.2 cm (12 x 19 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.56.3
Catalogue raisonné
FF 157
Edition
First suite, XXV/XXV
Impression
XXV
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Erik Desmazières’ etchings and aquatints represent libraries, city views, cabinets of wonder, and other spaces rich with meaning, history, and content, both real and imagined. Through virtuoso draftsmanship and his consummate command of the technical aspects of etching, Desmazières renders his architectural spaces and cityscapes with hardened reality, simultaneously imbuing them with an uncanny sense of the fantastic and the surreal.

The Library of Babel: The Tower of Babel or Entrance to the Library called Babel with Four Towers

1997

Erik Desmazières

(French, born Morocco, 1948-)
France

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