Agamagraph

Yaacov Agam

n.d.

  • Titles Agamagraph (Proper)
  • Artist Yaacov Agam, Israeli, born Palestine 1928
  • Medium screenprint, lucite
  • Dimensions 12 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (32.4 × 34.6 cm) frame: 22 1/2 × 22 1/4 × 3/4 in. (57.2 × 56.5 × 1.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase in honor of the 1980 Museum Dinner and Ball Chairmen: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shannon, Mrs. Keehn W. Berry, Jr., Mr. William Spencer III, Mrs. William C. Hulsey and Mrs. Henry Crommelin, Jr., 1980.256
  • Work Type painting
  • Classification Paintings

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