Ghost of Chance

Multiple artists/makers

1990

Not on view

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Provenance

Title: Ghost of Chance
Artist: George Condo (American, born Concord, New Hampshire, 1957)
Author: William S. Burroughs (American, 1914–1997)
Printer: Aldo Crommelynck (French (born Monaco) 1931–2008 Paris)
Printer: Grenfell Press (New York, NY)
Printer: Susan Medlicot (American)
Binder: Claudia Cohen (American, born Springfield, Massachusetts, 1953)
Artist: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Date: 1990
Medium: Artist's book
Dimensions: Case: 2.3 × 38.9 × 26.6 cm (7/8 × 15 5/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 14 13/16 × 9 15/16 in. (37.7 × 25.2 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Lin Lougheed Collection, Gift of Lin Lougheed, 2016
Object Number: 2016.587.18
Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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