Object number2023.12.6
The Hotel Paradise Café
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Interiors IV
Date1987
Artist
Peter Milton
(American, b.1930)
CultureAmerican
MediumResist-ground etching and engraving
EditionEdition 7 of 20
DimensionsPlate: 24 x 35 5/8 in. (61 x 90.5 cm)
Matted: 32 x 43 1/4 in. (81.3 x 109.9 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/4 x 42 in. (74.3 x 106.7 cm)
Matted: 32 x 43 1/4 in. (81.3 x 109.9 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/4 x 42 in. (74.3 x 106.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jo Citron, class of 1971
Period20th century
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower right margin in pencil: Peter Milton
InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower right margin in pencil: 87; lower center margin: HOTEL PARADISE CAFÉ; lower left margin: INTERIORS IV VII/XX
BibliographyJohnson, Robert Flynn and Peter Milton. 1996. Peter Milton: Complete Prints 1960-1996. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, pl. 110, pp. 125, 153;
Milton, Peter. The Primacy of Touch: The Drawings of Peter Milton: a Cataglogue Raisonnè. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993, pp. 82-83;DescriptionA black and white composition depicting the interior of a hotel café and other spaces visible in the background, with details that seem to vacillate between real and imaginary. Figures, animals, birds, and light forms throughout the scene appear in varied forms, some partially fading into the background. Text appears, legible, doubled, and reversed, in the upper half of the composition.
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