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Jim Nutt b.1938

Back Scratch

1970
etching image: 3 h × 4½ w in (8 × 11 cm) sheet: 7½ h × 11 w in (19 × 28 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $5,040
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Signed, dated and numbered to verso ‘J. Nutt 7/15’ and titled to lower margin ‘Back Scratch’. This work is number 7 from the edition of 15.
provenance: David Nolan Gallery, Inc., New York | Private Collection
An example of this work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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It's a process like giving birth. You're going through some sort of natural process, and something is resisting. I'm assisting, making it possible, but it's more of a magical, creative thing than an intellectual process of stating a purpose, analyzing how to do it, then doing it.

Jim Nutt, on his artistic technique

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