Alice's Mirror

Artist Duane Michals (American, born 1932)

Date1974

MediumGelatin silver prints

DimensionsImage: 3 1/2 × 5 inches (8.89 × 12.7 cm)
Sheet: 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.78 cm)
Framed: 10 1/8 × 60 1/8 × 1 inches (25.72 × 152.72 × 2.54 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Guild of the Friends of Art

Object numberF77-55.1-7

SignedOn sheet recto (first image on left), lower right, in black pen: "Duane Michals 12/25"

InscribedOn sheet recto (first image on left), upper left, in black pen: "ALICE'S MIRROR"; Photographs 2-7, numbered, top of sheet, center, in black pen.

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 12/25

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DescriptionSeries of seven photographs, numbered, depicting a pair of wire-rimmed eye glasses next to a tiny upholstered chair, resting on the shelf of a cabinet, reflected in a round mirror, reflected within a larger rectangular mirror, which is then crushed in the palm of a hand, the shards falling out onto the table on which the hand rests.

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