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Andres Serrano (B. 1950)
The Morgue (Infectious Pneumonia)
signed, titled and numbered 'Andres Serrano THE MORGUE (INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA) 3/7' (on the reverse)
Cibacrome print, in artist's frame
32⅝ x 40⅛in. (83 x 102cm.)
Executed in 1992, This work is number three from an edition of seven
Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
B. Wallis (ed.), Andres Serrano Body and Soul, 1995 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Andres Serrano A History of Sex, exh. cat., Milan, Galleria Photology, 1998 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 9).
Exhibited
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Andres Serrano The Morgue, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited).
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Andres Serrano Works 1983-1993, 1995, p. 94 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour p. 95). This exhibition later travelled to New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Miami, Center for the Fine Arts. Houston, Contemporary Art Museum. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Paris, Petit Palais, Andres Serrano, 2018 (another for the edition exhibited).
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