Untitled #1

1988, printed 2020

Sunil Gupta

Associated Names
Sunil Gupta

Artist, Canadian, born India, 1953

This photograph shows two men standing outdoors with a cloudy blue sky overhead. They are positioned side by side, leaning against a stone wall. The man on the left has short, dark hair and light brown skin, and he is wearing a grey blazer over a light blue and white striped shirt and blue jeans with a patch showing a white horse. He is looking towards the right, to the man next to him. The man on the right has pale skin, short light brown hair, and a mustache, and he is wearing a beige zip-up jacket with his hand on the side of his head, resting against the stone wall behind him. He is looking towards us. Both men seem to be smiling slightly. In the background there appear to be the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben along the River Thames in London, with boats on the water. To the right is a vertical white stripe with text on it. Beyond that stripe, on the far right, appears to be part of a different black-and-white photograph that shows a mounted police officer and a crowd in an urban setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    inkjet print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 60.96 × 91.44 cm (24 × 36 in.)
    sheet: 65.41 × 111.76 cm (25 3/4 × 44 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.23.1

  • Copyright

    © Sunil Gupta

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sunil Gupta, London; (Hales Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2022.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in graphite: Sunil Gupta / Untitled #1 / Image-1998/Print-2020 / Edition #1/5; on recto, center right in negative: I call you / my love though / you are not my / love and it / breaks my / heart to tell you


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