id: 309503 accession number: 2018.56 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.56 updated: 2023-01-19 15:31:51.938000 The Library of Babel, 1997. Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, 1948-). Portfolio of ten etchings and aquatints printed on blue-toned laid paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.56 title: The Library of Babel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1997 creation date earliest: 1997 creation date latest: 1997 current location: creditline: Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt copyright: --- culture: France technique: Portfolio of ten etchings and aquatints printed on blue-toned laid paper department: Prints collection: PR - Mezzotint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: FF 157-166 --- CREATORS * Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, 1948-) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: First suite, XXV/XXV support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt, Pepper Pike, OH date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 4, 2018 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Desmazières, Erik. Erik Desmazières: Etchings, 1972-1981. New York: Fitch-Febvrel Gallery, 1981. page number: cat. nos. 157-166 url: --- IMAGES