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Julie Mehretu
Auguries
2010
The complete 12-part aquatint with spit-bite etching in colors, on Hahnemüle Museum paper, the full sheets.
overall S. 89 x 182 in. (226.1 x 462.3 cm)
The lower right panel signed, dated and numbered 21/24 in pencil (there were also 4 artist's proofs), published by Gemini, G.E.L. Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), all framed.
Full-Cataloguing
This monumental work was commissioned for The Metropolitan Opera's, Gallery Met, Notations After the Ring, Julie Mehretu, September 27, 2010 – January 29, 2011 in Lincoln Center, to accompany the opening of Robert Lepage's updated production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first installment of the Ring cycle.