Guillotine

Norman Bluhm

1961

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See original frame record 2016.1, nail holes on back of frame and on back of stretcher match.
Community Church, Lucy Jane Salter, woodcut
At the center of the work is an irregular circle outlined in black. The circle is divided into a light blue upper portion and a light pink lower portion. The circle is partially intersected by a stroke of brown paint emerging from the right. Above the circle are two slanted lines that meet at the bottom of an irregular black rectangle, part of which is covered in brown with two dashes of light blue below it. Two thin vertical black lines emerge from the bottom towards the circle. The background of the work is painted white.
This black-and-white photograph shows six men on a wooden platform tending to a bale of cotton after compressing.