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A car image is upside down flying over a field of horizontal lines in brown. The car is in a sky-like space of blue.
Identifiable Flying Object
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Identifiable Flying Object

Artist Dan Erceanu (Romanian, born 1943)
Date1973
MediumColor etching, aquatint
Dimensionssheet: 21 3/4 x 32 7/8 in. (55.2 x 83.5 cm)
image: 18 3/4 x 29 7/8 in. (47.6 x 75.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum collection, University Gallery purchase
Object numberPR-74-84
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