Elevated: Art Via Chicago 
20 February 2025
Elevated: Art Via Chicago 
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Jim Nutt b.1938

Back Scratch

1970
etching image: 2¾ h × 4½ w in (7 × 11 cm) sheet: 7 h × 7⅛ w in (18 × 18 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $2,286
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Titled to lower margin 'Back Scratch'. Signed and numbered to verso 'Jim Nutt 12/15'. This work is number 12 from the edition of 15.
provenance: Phyllis Kind Gallery, 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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