Untitled from The Temple
Luc Tuymans
Belgian, born 1958
1996
An aquatint print by Luc Tuymans that pairs a heavy black field with a bleached, photograph-like interior to probe memory, absence, and the uncertain authority of images.
A stark black rectangle dominates the upper half, while below a pale, washed-out corridor and a barely articulated standing figure appear like a half-remembered photograph fading at the edges.
Tuymans’s muted, restrained images helped shift late-20th-century art toward an investigation of how painting and printmaking can register historical and psychological uncertainty rather than straightforward depiction.
Medium
One from a portfolio of eight aquatints
Dimensions
plate: 20 3/8 × 14 5/8" (51.8 × 37.1 cm); sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 3/4" (80 × 60.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment
Accession
701.2015.4
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