Stiletto (AIDS Memorial)

Artist Yolanda Andrade (Mexican, born 1950)

Date1993

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (31.75 × 21.27 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 inches (35.4 × 27.62 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Beckett Art Purchases Fund in memory of Samuel and Ethel Beckett

Object number2023.4.2

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Yolanda Andrade"

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "(a street altar the day of the Death to remember a man / who died of AIDS) / "Stiletto" / vintage print / 2a impresion / Ciudad de México 1993-1996"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "31" [circled]

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DescriptionImage of a street alter composed of a bowl of fruit, bottle of wine, paper skeleton, and in the center an image of a high heeled shoe with a cigarette under the heel.Provenance

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Yolanda Andrade, Mexico;

Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY;

Purchased from Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.

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