Arctic Hysteria IV
DKK 1,997.00
Yellow-toned b/w photo montage. Originally consisting of seven juxtaposed photographs appropriated from American explorer Robert E. Peary’s 1898 book Northward over the “Great Ice”: four photographs of Peary himself and his three expedition members Clark, Baldwin, and Entrikin and three photographs of three unnamed Inuit women, whom Peary labeled “The Mistress of the Tupik,” “An Arctic Bronze,” and “Flash-Light Study,”
1997
Measurements: Original: 137 x 360 cm, reproduction: 76 x 200 cm
Collection of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (reproduction)