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Item Details

Description

Lot 25
Owen Morrel
American (b. 1950)
Desk Axis (1976)
c-print
pencil signed lower right
image: 26 x 38 inches

Provenance:
From the Estate of Friede Gorewitz Previously in the collection of Friede & Rubin L. Gorewitz

Condition

good condition, some accretions between frame and image, not examined out of frame

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Owen Morrel - Desk Axis

Name: Owen Morrel - Desk Axis
SKU: 110910461
Price: 125 USD
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