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Postcard: Manhattan (skyline at night)

1996

Artists

Cai Guo-QiangArtist

Description

Postcard with image of the artist's silhouette and smoke with view of the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan.

Classification
Prints
Medium
Commercially color-printed ink on card stock
Culture
Chinese
Century
20th century
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Department
Department of Modern & Contemporary Art

Dimensions

10.7 x 15 cm (4 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Cai Guo-Giang, New York, New York, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

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