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'Singing Head'
Details
Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)
'Singing Head'
inscribed with initials 'EC' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with bluish-green patina
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high on a 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) wood base
Modeled in 1968.
'Singing Head'
inscribed with initials 'EC' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with bluish-green patina
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high on a 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) wood base
Modeled in 1968.
Provenance
Private collection, Mexico City, Mexico.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
S. Lewis, The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Claremont, California, 1984, pp. 31, 33, 188, other examples illustrated.
Neuberger Museum of Art, Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Purchase, New York, 1998, p. 51, another example illustrated (as Cabeza Cantando (Singing Head)).
M.A. Herzog, Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico, Seattle, Washington, 2000, n.p., pl. 8, another example illustrated (as Cabeza Cantando).
Neuberger Museum of Art, Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Purchase, New York, 1998, p. 51, another example illustrated (as Cabeza Cantando (Singing Head)).
M.A. Herzog, Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico, Seattle, Washington, 2000, n.p., pl. 8, another example illustrated (as Cabeza Cantando).
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