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Roser Bru (Chilean, born Spain, 1923). Desahucio de Adan y Eva, 1968. Engraving and etching with ink stamp added, Sheet: 20 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (51.1 x 34.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 68.228.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 68.228.1_PS9.jpg)
Roser Bru (Chilean, born Spain, 1923). Desahucio de Adan y Eva, 1968. Engraving and etching with ink stamp added, Sheet: 20 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (51.1 x 34.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 68.228.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: , CUR.68.228.1.jpg)
Desahucio de Adan y Eva
Contemporary Art
Roser Bru, a Catalan painter living in Chile, is known for her eclectic approach to image-making, often incorporating found images, stamps, and collage elements, as seen in this group of engravings and etchings from the 1968 series Diez Grabados Originales (Ten Original Engravings). These works emerge from the patriarchal Judeo-Christian narrative of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the biblical Garden of Eden, the “fall of man” traditionally interpreted as beginning with a woman’s original sin. The way Bru imagines the story, both genders are subject to fragmentation, but the bodies of women and girls are the most studied and deconstructed, in a reference to their social status as dictated by Catholic traditions.
PORTFOLIO/SERIES
From the portfolio: "Diez Grabados Originales"
PUBLISHER
Ediciones Ellena
MEDIUM
Engraving and etching with ink stamp added
DATES
1968
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 20 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (51.1 x 34.9 cm)
Image: 19 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (48.9 x 31.1 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed, "Roser Bru" lower right in graphite
INSCRIPTIONS
Title embossed in plate bottom and lower left in graphite
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
68.228.1
CREDIT LINE
Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Roser Bru (Chilean, born Spain, 1923). Desahucio de Adan y Eva, 1968. Engraving and etching with ink stamp added, Sheet: 20 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (51.1 x 34.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 68.228.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 68.228.1_PS9.jpg)
EDITION
Edition: 19/50
IMAGE
overall, 68.228.1_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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