Name: BILL ARMSTRONG (B. 1952)
Brand: The Apparition Portfolio, 2003
Price: 1800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

BILL ARMSTRONG (B. 1952)
The Apparition Portfolio, 2003
sixteen chromogenic prints flush-mounted on board, printed 2005
each numbered '901-918' and '9/10' in ink and stamped with exhibition information (frame backing board)
each image/flush mount: 13¹⁄₂ x 10¹⁄₂ in. (34.2 x 26.6 cm.)
each overall: 15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.4 cm.)
This work is number nine from an edition of ten.

Acquired directly from the artist, 2005.

W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 165.

Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.

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The plates are as follows: #901, #902, #903, #904, #905, #906, #907, #909, #910, #911, #912, #913, #914, #915, #917, #918

'...in Apparition ephemeral skull-like faces emerge from the darkness into a Technicolor nightmare; they are insubstantial but menacing, rendered in the seemingly simplest of strokes of colour and light.' – W.M. Hunt