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VANESSA BEECROFT (1969- ) VB42 Intrepid, The Silent Service, New York. Digital C-print, the image measuring 50x96¾ inches (127x246 cm.), flush mounted, with a Deitch label with Beecroft's credit, the medium, size, and edition notation 4/6 + 2 AP, on verso; framed. 2000
Provenance: Jeffrey Deitch, New York; to the Present Owner
This work is the result of a live event held on April 21, 2000, from 7:30 to 9 pm, at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York as part of an off-site component of the 2000 Biennial at the Whitney Museum. Organized in collaboration with the US Navy, the Public Art Fund and Deitch Projects, Vanessa Beecroft'sVB42 Intrepid featured 35 sailors from the Undersea Warfare Community standing in ceremonial formation on the flight deck of the Intrepid in service dress blues. Vanessa Beecroft's VB42 Intrepid was her second project in a series devoted to capturing a live portrait of the US Navy.
