Door [working proof 9]
1991
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spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper [working proof 9]
Dimensions
36 x 29 in.
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.370
Art Historical Context
**Door [working proof ]** by Anish Kapoor (199) invites visitors into the artist's exploration of form, space, and illusion. A British sculptor of Indian descent, Kapoor is for monumental installations that play with perception—think mirrored surfaces and bottomless voids like those in his iconic *Cloud Gate*. during the early 1990s, when Kapoor was delving into printmaking alongside sculpture, this work captures a pivotal moment in his career, blending his fascination with thresholds and the uncanny into a two-dimensional realm. The medium, spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper, showcases a r...
About the Artist
Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Kapoor, born Anish Mikhail Kapoor on 12 March 1954 in Mumbai, India, to a Punjabi Hindu father—a hydrographer and physicist in the Indian Navy—and an Iraqi-Jewish mother, grew up in a cosmopolitan family that shaped his multifaceted worldview. After attending the elite Doon School boarding school and a formative stint on an Israeli kibbutz, where he briefly pursued electrical engineering...