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Raymond Pettibon
The Beautiful and the Damned2003

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Etching of a beaver or muskrat crouching over a bundle of thin sticks, rendered in sepia-brown ink with dense hatched lines; inscribed text below
Etching of a beaver in profile, leaning toward a bundle of crossed twigs, rendered with fine hatched lines on cream paper. Handwritten text below reads: "And if I come safe to the end of it, I feel like one escaped."
Intaglio print of a beaver crouching among reeds, overlaid with a loose network of intersecting diagonal lines. Fine cross-hatching renders the animal's fur in detail. Below, handwritten text reads: "And if I come safe to the end of it, I feel like one escaped."
Artist or Maker
Raymond Pettibon
Title
The Beautiful and the Damned
Date Made
2003
Medium
Copper plate etching
Dimensions
Sheet (each): 14 7/8 × 22 3/8 in. (37.78 × 56.83 cm) Image (each): 10 5/8 × 15 1/4 in. (26.99 × 38.74 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Prints and Drawings Council
Accession Number
M.2008.254.3.1-.3
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Copyright
© Raymond Pettibon