ROBERT CUMMING | 'WORK FOR SAWS. IRVINE, CALIFORNIA' AND 'SAWS THROUGH AT RIGHT ANGLES. . .RIP AND CROSS-CUT.': A DIPTYCH
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ROBERT CUMMING
B. 1943
'WORK FOR SAWS. IRVINE, CALIFORNIA' AND 'SAWS THROUGH AT RIGHT ANGLES. . .RIP AND CROSS-CUT.': A DIPTYCH
a diptych of gelatin silver prints, each signed, titled, and dated in the negative, with directional notations in pencil and signed, titled, and dated in ink on the reverse of the left print, matted together, 1978
each image: 7⅝ by 9¾ in. (19.4 by 24.8 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer, circa 1978
Robert Cumming: Photographic Works, 1969-80 (Limoges: Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, 1994), pp. 132-33
Work for Saws: Sarah Bay Gachot, ed., Robert Cumming: The Difficulties of Nonsense (New York, 2016), p. 147