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Pere Formiguera
Solenoglypha Polipodida1987

Not on view
Two works: upper, an X-ray-style negative print of two intertwined lizard skeletons on black; lower, a pencil and watercolor drawing on graph paper of fantastical multi-legged reptilian creatures with German handwritten annotations and an orange cursive title and date.
Artist or Maker
Pere Formiguera
Spain, Barcelona, born 1952
Artist or Maker
Joan Fontcuberta
Spain, Barcelona, born 1955
Title
Solenoglypha Polipodida
Place Made
Spain
Date Made
1987
Medium
Gelatin silver print, watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions
Image (Top): 6 1/2 × 9 in. (16.51 × 22.86 cm) Primary support: 7 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (18.1 × 23.97 cm) Image (Bottom): 7 9/16 × 9 3/8 in. (19.21 × 23.81 cm) Primary support: 8 7/16 × 10 3/8 in. (21.43 × 26.35 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Graham and Susan Nash in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.90.75.30
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Salvesen, Britt, and Jim Shedden. Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2016.