About the Artwork
Laughter/After Laughter #1
2009
Gerhardt Knodel
born 1940
American
Unknown
Antique silk, ikat, linen, plastic disks, nylon net
Overall (top section): 12 × 66 inches (30.5 × 167.6 cm) Overall (bottom section): 5 3/4 × 66 inches (14.6 × 167.6 cm)
Textiles
Contemporary Art after 1950
Museum Purchase, Phyllis King Weiner Fund
2015.23
© Gerhardt Knodel
Markings
Inscribed, as part of composition, across both panels: LAUGHTER | AFTER LAUGHTER
Provenance
(Wasserman Projects, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
2015-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© Gerhardt Knodel
Gerhardt Knodel, Laughter/After Laughter #1, 2009, antique silk, ikat, linen, plastic disks, nylon net. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Phyllis King Weiner Fund, 2015.23.
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