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Intimacy-Autonomy

Joan Semmel

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

MEDIUM Oil on canvas
DATES 1974
DIMENSIONS 50 × 98 in., 143 lb. (127 × 248.9 cm, 64.86kg) frame (2021 frame made to artist's specification): 56 × 104 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (142.2 × 265.4 × 9.5 cm)  (show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER 2004.117
CREDIT LINE Anonymous gift
PROVENANCE By 2004, acquired from the artist by an anonymous donor; 2004, gift of an anonymous donor to the Brooklyn Museum.
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CAPTION Joan Semmel (American, born 1932). Intimacy-Autonomy, 1974. Oil on canvas, 50 × 98 in., 143 lb. (127 × 248.9 cm, 64.86kg). Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift, 2004.117. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2004.117_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 2004.117_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
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RIGHTS STATEMENT © Joan Semmel
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