Night

Artist Akio Takamori (Japanese, 1950 - 2017)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date1996

MediumLithograph on Arches Cover white paper with Okawara paper chine collé

DimensionsImage: 18 1/2 × 28 1/2 inches (46.99 × 72.39 cm)
Sheet: 25 × 33 1/2 inches (63.5 × 85.09 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund

Object number2024.9.205

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DescriptionThe much larger, pale woman reclines to the left, facing right. Her legs are drawn up and spread wide. A smaller man, black with a grey face, lies on his stomach on top of her. His face is turned to the front. He strokes her face with his proper left hand and she extends a grey proper right arm to embrace him. A red tray with a teapot and cup in the lower left corner.Provenance

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