Luis González Palma

a unique object, toned and with applied paint and collaged elements, signed on the reverse, a Danziger Gallery, New York, label on the reverse, framed, 1998, no. one in an edition of 15

Although this piece has not been examined out of the frame, it appears to be in overall excellent condition. This work is comprised of the following: the two lower quadrants are sheets of paper with red and black paint; the upper left quadrant is a toned gelatin silver print; the upper right quadrant consists of two layers of typeset pages from a book in Latin, a small photograph of dice and two layers of transparencies of images of thorns. These elements are stitched together with red thread.The edges of all of the sheets are curling slightly.
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