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KARA WALKER (B. 1969)
Emancipation Approximation; Plate 15
signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'XXI / XXV KW 2000' (on the reverse)
screenprint on paper
4378 x 3378in. (111.5 x 86cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is number twenty-one from an edition of twenty plus five artist's proofs

The complete portfolio of Emancipation Approximation is in the permanent collection of Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Provenance
mo-artgallery, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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To demand exactitude in the pursuit of a historical truth is to go where no mind can venture and return whole. The load is too large to carry, the losses too many and too varied. Truth will drain from your hands like so much water. Instead, you will find yourself drawing on tales from the past – historical accounts, novels and songs that compress shared memory – to make the bitter truth at least partly digestible.
- Kara Walker

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