Force of Circumstance

Elizabeth Murray

1986

  • Titles Force of Circumstance (Proper)@Force of Circumstance (for Simone de Beauvoir) (Former title)
  • Artist Elizabeth Murray, American, 1940 - 2007
  • Medium oil on canvas
  • Dimensions 124 x 152 x 13 in. (315 x 386.1 x 33 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art; partial gift of PaceWildenstein in memory of the artist, 2008.103a-b, image © 2018 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Work Type painting
  • Classification Paintings

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