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Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Sweet Smell of Sage Enters the Room

Ida Applebroog

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Object Label

Ida Applebroog’s work addresses gender politics and women’s sexuality in the sphere of the traditional nuclear family home. Designed like a comic strip, Sweet Smell of Sage Enters the Room depicts the monotonous terror of persistent domestic abuse and engages viewers as spectators observing something that would normally take place behind closed doors.

Caption

Ida Applebroog (American, 1929–2023). Sweet Smell of Sage Enters the Room, 1979. Ink on vellum paper coated with Rhoplex, image (each print): 11 1/2 x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.9 cm) frame: 17 x 68 in. (43.2 x 172.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Monique Knowlton, New York, 2005.72a-f. © Ida Applebroog. (Photo: Emily Poole; courtesy of Ida Applebroog and Hauser & Wirth, New York)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Sweet Smell of Sage Enters the Room

Date

1979

Medium

Ink on vellum paper coated with Rhoplex

Classification

Print

Dimensions

image (each print): 11 1/2 x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.9 cm) frame: 17 x 68 in. (43.2 x 172.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Monique Knowlton, New York

Accession Number

2005.72a-f

Rights

© Ida Applebroog

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Frequent Art Questions

  • You mean to tell me this is also rhoplex, like Hammond's work?

    Yes, it's a very versatile material. In these two cases it has been applied to different materials. Here, it's being used to coat the vellum paper.

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Artists and makers

Ida Applebroog

4 works in the collection