EMILY MAE SMITH (B. 1979)
Lot 47

EMILY MAE SMITH (B. 1979)

Chekhov's Gun

Closed21 July 2022

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EMILY MAE SMITH (B. 1979)
Chekhov's Gun
signed, dated and numbered '74/75... Emily Mae Smith... 2017' in pencil
screenprint in colors, on Coventry Rag paper
Image: 22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.1 cm.)
Sheet: 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 2017. This work is number 74 from the edition of 75. Published for ACRIA: Aids Community Research Initiative, New York.

Specialist note

Smith describes the recurrent motif of white teeth as “a cartoon for a hyper masculine man-splain[ing] mouth—like an early 20th century tycoon, bared teeth blabbing wide.”