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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
(French, born Morocco, 1948-)
France
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
Location: not on view

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.
  • Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt, Pepper Pike, OH
    June 4, 2018
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Desmazières, Erik. Erik Desmazières: Etchings, 1972-1981. New York: Fitch-Febvrel Gallery, 1981. cat. no.`7
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