Inscription
on panel 1: on verso, by artist's hand, center in graphite: [a drawing indicating the way the whole six-part series should be hung, with a vertical column made up of #2,3,4, and 5 flanked by #1 on the left and #6 on the right]; by artist, lower center and right in graphite: PASSES #1; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up];
on panel 2: on verso, by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: PASSES #2 [arrow pointing up] / VA; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: A;
on panel 3: on verso, by artist's hand, lower center in graphite: PASSES #3; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up] / VA 71;
on panel 4: on verso, by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: PASSES #4 [arrow pointing up] / VA 71;
on panel 5: on verso, by artist's hand, lower center in graphite: PASSES #5; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up] / VA 71;
on panel 6: signed by artist, lower right corner in chalk: VA Acconci 71; on verso, by artist, lower center in graphite: PASSES #6; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up]
Provenance
Eileen and Michael Cohen, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.
Exhibition History
- 2012
- The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012
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