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The time of the failing of beauty
(c. 1983)
from the Zone series (c. 1983)

Medium
etching, deep-etching and aquatint
Measurements
22.6 × 16.6 cm (plate) 56.6 × 37.9 cm irreg. (sheet)
Edition
ed. 13/25
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: ZONE / The time of the failing of beauty
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 13/25 D. Walker
Accession Number
1996.813.7
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Stephen Wickham, 1996
© Deborah Walker/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
A series of dark and richly worked etchings in which Walker translates excerpts of a poem by Baudelaire into a visual form. Combining her characteristically idiosyncratic figuration with the depiction of sometimes esoteric objects, she depicts the narrative in a highly personal although symbolic way.