Nancy Spero
Codex Artaud IX1971

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Horizontal mixed-media work on cream paper combining Egyptian eye symbols, a standing figure, reclining figure sketch, text blocks, and a gold-toned vertical panel

Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud IX, 1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer; Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Sloane & Richman; and Sharleen Cooper Cohen and Martin L. Cohen, M.D., photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker: Nancy Spero
United States, Ohio, Cleveland, 1926-2009
Title: Codex Artaud IX
Date Made: 1971
Medium: Typewriting and painting collage on paper
Dimensions: Framed: 25 x 124 x 2 in. (63.5 x 314.96 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer; Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Sloane & Richman; and Sharleen Cooper Cohen and Martin L. Cohen, M.D.
Accession Number: M.2006.19
Classification: Collages
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography: Lamm, Kimberly. Addressing the Other Woman: Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art and Writing. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Copyright: © Nancy Spero Estate/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Nancy Spero
Codex Artaud IX1971

Not on view

Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud IX, 1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer; Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Sloane & Richman; and Sharleen Cooper Cohen and Martin L. Cohen, M.D., photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker: Nancy Spero
United States, Ohio, Cleveland, 1926-2009
Title: Codex Artaud IX
Date Made: 1971
Medium: Typewriting and painting collage on paper
Dimensions: Framed: 25 x 124 x 2 in. (63.5 x 314.96 x 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Alice and Nahum Lainer; Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Sloane & Richman; and Sharleen Cooper Cohen and Martin L. Cohen, M.D.
Accession Number: M.2006.19
Classification: Collages
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography: Lamm, Kimberly. Addressing the Other Woman: Textual Correspondences in Feminist Art and Writing. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.