About the Artwork
Vanity
1981
Mel Rosas (Artist) American, born 1950 Patrick Surgalski (Printer) Stewart & Stewart (Publisher) Bloomfield hills, michigan
Lithograph (b/w)
Image: 14 3/4 inches × 21 inches (37.5 × 53.3 cm) Sheet: 22 1/2 × 30 1/8 inches (57.2 × 76.5 cm)
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Museum Purchase, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund
2021.174
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right margin: Mel Rosas '81
Titled and editioned, in pencil, lower left margin: Vanity 1/50
Blind stamp, lower right margin: SS [Stewart & Stewart chopmark] Blind Stamp, lower rght margin: The letter S inside of a heart with a horizontal line intersecting it Watermark, lower left margin: ARCHES | FRANCE [infinity symbol] Stamp, in black ink, verso, lower left edge: (c) MEL ROSAS 1981
Provenance
Stewart & Stewart (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
2021-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Mel Rosas, Vanity, 1981, lithograph (b/w). Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund, 2021.174.
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