Catalogue entry
P77250 Wounded Sphinx 1965
Lithograph 755 × 1050 (29 3/4 × 41 1/2) on wove Rives paper, same size; printed by Tamarind Press; publisher not known; edition of 20
Inscribed ‘Golub’ b.r., ‘Wounded Spinx’ b.l. and ‘7/20’ bottom centre
Purchased from Print Works, Chicago (Grant-in-Aid) 1988
‘Wounded Sphinx’, printed in red and blue, depicts a male sphinx with one limb raised and an anguished expression. In conversation at his studio in New York on 2 November 1988, Golub described the sphinx in P77250 as ‘self-wounded’ in one aspect, although he depicted them in related works as wounded by an external being. On an early draft of this entry Golub commented (19 January 1995): ‘Sphinx are agressive. They express also a vulnerability’… (read more)
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