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accession number:	2018.56.7
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.56.7
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:16.786000

The Library of Babel: Big Hemicycle, 1997. Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, 1948-), Printed by René Tazé and François Baudequin at the Atelier René Tazé, Paris. Etching and aquatint from the First Suite of ten prints on blue-toned laid paper; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.56.7

title:				The Library of Babel: Big Hemicycle
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creation date:			1997
creation date earliest:		1997
creation date latest:		1997
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creditline:			Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt
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culture:	France
technique:	Etching and aquatint from the First Suite of ten prints on blue-toned laid paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: FF 163

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CREATORS

* Erik Desmazières (French, born Morocco, 1948-)  - artist

* Printed by René Tazé and François Baudequin at the Atelier René Tazé, Paris  - printer

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edition of the work: 	First suite, XXV/XXV

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	inscription:	Signed and numbered XXV/XXV
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt, Pepper Pike, OH
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 4, 2018
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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.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Desmazières, Erik. Erik Desmazières: Etchings, 1991-2001. New York: Fitch-Febvrel Gallery, 2001.
	page number: 	cat. no.163
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	Desmazières, Erik. Les lieux imaginaires d'Érik Desmazières = Érik Desmazières : imaginary places. Milan: 5 Continents, 2007.
	page number: 	cat.. no. 95
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