Mes Voeux avec nos ecritures et nos cheveux (My Vows with Our Writings and Our Hair)

Annette Messager

1997

  • Titles Mes Voeux avec nos ecritures et nos cheveux (My Vows with Our Writings and Our Hair) (Proper)
  • Artist Annette Messager, French, born 1943
  • Medium hair and colored pencil on paper under glass, and string
  • Dimensions 112 1/2 x 69 1/2 in. (285.8 x 176.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with additional funds provided by the Day Family Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Anthony McGrath, Mr. Jim Selfe, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Ward, and gifts in memory of Mr. William Whisenant, AFI.6.1999
  • Work Type collage
  • Classification Collage

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