Scene 2
c. 1970
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View on museum website →Medium
woodcut in black touched with watercolor, blue pencil, and graphite on wove paper; laid down on gray paper
Dimensions
sheet: 22 x 15.8 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.) support: 51.4 x 34.9 cm (20 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Elaine and James D. Wolfensohn and The Dunlevy Milbank Foundation
Accession Number
1993.25.3
About the Artist
Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023) was born in Dnipropetrovsk, in what is now Ukraine, and spent his childhood in conditions of considerable hardship, including evacuation to Samarkand during the Second World War. He showed early artistic aptitude and attended the school of the Leningrad Academy of Art while in Samarkand before moving to Moscow at eighteen to study at the Surikov Art Institute, from which h...