White sheet with mirrored hand-drawn words 'LIFE' and 'FLY' repeated in pencil.

Prints

Life Fly Lifes Flies

1997

Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 37 1/8 × 27 1/8 in. (94.3 × 68.9 cm) Plate: 29 5/8 × 20 in. (75.2 × 50.8 cm)
Accession number
99.63.5
Acquired
1999
Credit line
Gift of Jean-Christophe Castelli and tribute from the artists in honor of Leo Castelli
Reproduction credit
© Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
53/90 | I-XC APs, 10 PPs
Publication
Printed by Lothar Osterburg Studio
Department
collection

About this work

Bruce Nauman, Life Fly Lifes Flies, 1997. Etching, sheet: 37 1/8 × 27 1/8 in. (94.3 × 68.9 cm) Plate: 29 5/8 × 20 in. (75.2 × 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jean-Christophe Castelli and tribute from the artists in honor of Leo Castelli 99.63.5. © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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