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Water Balance

Artist David Goldes (American, born 1947)
Date1994
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 27 3/16 × 34 13/16 inches (69.06 × 88.44 cm)
Sheet: 29 7/8 × 37 3/8 inches (75.87 × 94.95 cm)
Credit LineGift of Del and Sharon Zogg
Object number2023.20
SignedSigned and editioned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "David Goldes 9/25"
InscribedOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Water Balance 1994"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 9/25 (or 15-as per artist, 2014)
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of an oval vessel filled to the very top with water; tiny nails are precariously balanced along the edges with their tips/ends partially resting on the water's surface.Provenance

Heritage Auctions, New York, lot 74158, May 3, 2015;

Purchased by Del Zogg, Concord, NC;

Gifted to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.

Copyright© David Goldes
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