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Art Institute of Chicago

Le Feu et La Cendre (Fire and Cinders)

Magdalena Abakanowicz

1973/75

Attribution
Magdalena Abakanowicz (Polish, born 1930) Poland
Medium
Linen and sisal, discontinuous weft plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, supplementary wrapping wefts and some ground wefts forming cut and uncut weft pile; self-patterned by ground weft floats; appliquéd with smaller rectangle of same weave, wrapped cord, yarn bundles forming cut pile and three-dimensional form in a knotting technique known as macramé
Physical dimensions
134.2 × 183.4 cm (52 3/4 × 72 1/4 in.)
Credit line
Bequest of Hugh C. Johnson
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