To Cure Impotence, Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Brazil, 1999, printed 2001

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Medium

gelatin silver print and screenprint on mat board

Dimensions

image: 36 × 48.5 cm (14 3/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
mat: 60.5 × 67.5 cm (23 13/16 × 26 9/16 in.)

framed: 62.5 × 69.5 × 3.81 cm (24 5/8 × 27 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection

Accession Number

2014.156.14

Artists / Makers

Fazal Sheikh (artist) American, born 1965

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Inscription

screen printed on mat in black ink, top center above photograph: TO CURE IMPOTENCE; bottom center of mat below photograph: First catch a free-range chicken. / Cut the large claws from its back feet and roast them. / Then, put the powdered claws into a liter of white wine. / After nine days serve a glass of the wine to the person at lunch and again at dinner. / Note: The person who is taking it should not know what it is for.

Provenance

Joseph Cohen, New York; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Cohen, Joseph

Exhibition History

2001: In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 15 – December 31, 2001; Houston Museum of Science, Houston, TX, February 1 – April 28, 2002; Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA, June 29 – September 3, 2002; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, August – December 2002; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, May 10 – August 3, 2003; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, January 24 – March 28, 2004; Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH, May 8 – June 15, 2004; Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, July 31 – September 2004; Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI, May 13 – June 26, 2005