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In shades of silvery gray and white, a cartoonish fist holds the handle of a beer stein so we look down into the glass. Filling the space around it, people sit, kiss, drink, or talk in a swirling, dream-like haze in this horizontal print.

Nicole Eisenman

Beer Garden, 2012 - 2017

Not on View

Medium

etching, aquatint, and drypoint printed chine collé on wove Hahnemühle paper

Dimensions

image: 101.4 × 121.6 cm (39 15/16 × 47 7/8 in.)

sheet: 112.8 × 131.7 cm (44 7/16 × 51 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2022.9.1

Artists / Makers

Nicole Eisenman (artist) American, born France, 1965

Harlan & Weaver (printer)

Harlan & Weaver (publisher)

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Inscription

"Nicole Eisenman 12-17" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "3/15" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.

Provenance

Harlan and Weaver, Inc., New York; purchased by NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Harlan & Weaver

Exhibition History

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.