Poster, "Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?", ca. 1989
This object is resting in our storage facility.
We acquired this object in 2009
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- Object ID: 18731763
- Accession Number: 2009-20-2
- Acquired: 2009
- Short URL: http://cprhw.tt/o/2E1ir/
- Poster, "Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?", ca. 1989. DO NOT USE; use Const ID 1244 [Guerrilla Girls] .ca. 1989. Photo-offset lithograph on paper. Gift of Sara and Marc Benda. 2009-20-2.
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- Designed by DO NOT USE; use Const ID 1244 [Guerrilla Girls]
- Designed by Guerrilla Girls
At left, nude woman (modeled after Igres' "Odalisque"), reclining on red surface with back to viewer, wearing a gorilla mask and holding a fan in right hand.
This poster is photo-offset lithograph on paper. Its dimensions are: 27.2 x 77.6 cm (10 11/16 x 30 9/16 in.).
It is inscribed Printed in black ink: Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?; printed in black and red inks, below: Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern/ Art sections are women, but 85%/ of the nudes are female./ Guerrilla Girls Conscience of the Art World/ www.guerrillagirls.com.
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Gift of Sara and Marc Benda. Its provenance is Marc Benda (Gift) We acquired this object in 2009.
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