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Aug 14, 2019
The Library of Babel: The Tower of Babel or Entrance to the Library called Babel with Four Towers
The Library of Babel: The Tower of Babel or Entrance to the Library called Babel with Four Towers
1997
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Erik Desmazières
(French, born Morocco, 1948-)
Etching and aquatint from the First Suite of ten prints on blue-toned laid paper
30.5 x 49.2 cm (12 x 19 3/8 in.)
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.56.3
Catalogue raisonné: FF 157
Edition: First suite, XXV/XXV
Impression: XXV
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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.
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