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FONTCUBERTA, JOAN (1955- )
“Chine Fan” (from the “Palimpsest” series). Oversized mixed-media Chinese fan with a selenium-
toned silver print photogram on a hand-painted paper surface, including pink flowers on branches
and bold green leaves, and an elegant, finely detailed photogram, also with a flora and fauna motif.
The overall size is 29
1
/
2
x53 inches (74.9x134.6 cm.) and the paper component is 16
1
/
2
inches high
(41.9 cm.); the wooden slats glued open (as originally conceptualized) and with two red ties on
verso. 1989
[10,000/15,000]
This piece is included in Fontcuberta’s “Palimpsest” series, in which an image (a photograph) is layered
on another existing picture (an illustration or a painting).
This unique, one-of-a-kind object features a photographic image known as a “photogram,” a cameraless
print which is made by placing an object onto a light-sensitized surface and exposing the sheet of paper
