Modernist Banknote

Artist Xavier Veilhan (French, born 1963)

Date2013

MediumDigital print

DimensionsImage: 12 × 23 15/16 in. (30.5 × 60.8 cm) Sheet: 19 11/16 × 27 1/2 in. (50 × 69.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Print Society

CultureFrench

InscribedArtist's signature, handwritten in pencil, l.r.; 161/300 handwritten, l.r.

Object numberPC2015.19.01

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionLong modernist (international style) rectangular structure raised on piloti recedes from right to left, colored bands in green, blue, and grey are arranged around it; patterns of parallel lines of different colors and directions superimposed over one another creating moiré patterns; resembles an enlarged banknote--the Euro most notably--without text. The building featured is based on Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation residential housing design concept, the most famous of which was built in Marseilles.

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