Untitled (May No. 2)

1979

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Artist: Susan Rothenberg born 1945
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Dimensions: Image: 350 x 300 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented in memory of Louise Bernbaum by her American friends through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1988
Reference: P11203

Catalogue entry

P11203 Untitled (May no.2) 1979

Soft ground, sugar lift, aquatint, spit-bite, scraping and burnishing 350 × 300 (13 3/4 × 11 3/4) on Fabriano etching paper 752 × 555 (29 1/2 × 22); plate-mark 350 × 300 (13 3/4 × 11 3/4); printed by Gretchen Gelb and Peter Drake at Aeropress, New York and published by Parasol Press, New York in an edition of 45
Inscribed ‘S. Rothenberg 1979 May 2 32/45’ up left hand side of image
Presented in memory of Louise Bernbaum by her American friends through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1988
Lit: ‘Prints & Photographs Published’, Print Collector's Newsletter, vol.10, Jan.–Feb. 1980, p.203, as ‘#2’; Jeremy Lewison, ‘Form & Expression in Susan Rothenberg's Prints’ in Susan Rothenberg: The Prints, Philadelphia 1987, pp.9–11; Rachael Robertson Maxwell, ‘A Catalogue Raisonné’ in Susan Rothenberg: The Prints, Philadelphia 1987, no.4, p.37, repr. p.36 in col. (unspecified impression); Wendy Weitman, ‘Susan Rothenberg: Painter as Etcher’ in Susan Rothenberg: The Prints, Philadelphia 1987, p.19; Friends of the Tate Gallery Report 1987 – 8, 1988, p.18, repr. Also repr: Susan Rothenberg Prints 1977–1984, exh. cat., Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston 1984, no.3 (unspecified impression); Contemporary Prints, sale cat., Sotheby's, New York, 14 Nov. 1987, lot 856

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Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996