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Itiba Cahubaba (Old Mother Blood/Ensangrentada Madre Vieja)

Ana Mendieta (American (born Cuba), Havana 1948–1985 New York)

Date:: 1981
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.227.2

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 399

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on print, verso TC: "top"; BC: "Goldman// 1-col"; BLC: "8 [encircled] SASE// Goldman" and "Rupestrian Sculpture Series 1981"; adhesive label affixed to print, verso BR, inscribed in red ink: "F [encircled] 37 1/2%" and blue ink: "301-"; gallery label affixed to print, verso C, printed TE: "CARLO// LAMAGNA// GALLERY"; BE: "50 WEST 57TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019", typed TLC: "RETURN TO:" C: "ANA MENDIETA// Itaba Cahubaba (Old Mother Blood/ // Ensangrentada Madre Vieja) 1981// 53 1/4 x 40 3/4 in., carved cave wall executed at the Cueva del Aguila,// Escaleras de Jaruco, Havana, Cuba"
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Galerie Lelong
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