Untitled (Medusa Plate), for the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 1999

Artist/Maker Vik Muniz (Brazilian, b. 1961)

Date1999

MediumPhotographic transfer-printed porcelain plate

DimensionsOverall: 1 1/8 × 12 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (2.9 × 31.8 × 31.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz

Object number2013.68.14

Status

Not on view

Untitled (Medusa Plate) was produced as the 1999 gift for the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, a program in which the software giant commissioned a contemporary artist to produce a multiple to distribute to the family’s friends in celebration of the holidays. Muniz’s plate features a pasta marinara rendition of Caravaggio’s round-format painting Medusa (ca. 1597, Uffizi, Florence).

ProvenanceCommissioned from the artist 1999 by Peter Norton; by gift 1999 to Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, New York; by gift 2013 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History

Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )

Collections

Modern & Contemporary

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