Museum object · Visual Arts
Pink Knife
2005
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia, Latin America, South America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A color lithograph depicting a red and pink handled knife. The knife stands upright in the center of the page, handle pointing upwards, with only the top half of the blade visible. The rest of the blade is embedded in a wide, dark grey strip that stretches across the bottom margin of the page. The handle of the knife has an oblong shape and is bright red, with four pink squares in a row. The triangular shaped blade is a pale grey. The work is signed by the artist [hoyos] at bottom right with the edition [72/75] at bottom left.
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Catalog reference: 2015.166.1
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