bathroom scene; male figure wearing white underwear, stands in front of a white claw foot bathtub looking to the PR, with PR arm across his chest; PL wrist is bound with a red string or rope and attached to another nude figure in a jumbled, compromised position, draped over the edge of the bathtub; both bodies appear to have been wounded, with suggestions of bloodstains on the edges of the bodies and the bathtub; chair on the right center edge; stool with green fabric draped over it in LRQ; yellow bath mat on a brown tiled floor; yellow walls and blue shower curtain

%C2%A9 Hugh Steers %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York

Tied at the Wrist, 1988

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Details
Title
Tied at the Wrist
Artist Life
1962 - 1995
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2020.96.47
Provenance
The artist, New York; Estate of Hugh Steers; [Alexander Gray Associates, New York, sold to Mersky 2018]; Robert B. Mersky, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2020.
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bathroom scene; male figure wearing white underwear, stands in front of a white claw foot bathtub looking to the PR, with PR arm across his chest; PL wrist is bound with a red string or rope and attached to another nude figure in a jumbled, compromised position, draped over the edge of the bathtub; both bodies appear to have been wounded, with suggestions of bloodstains on the edges of the bodies and the bathtub; chair on the right center edge; stool with green fabric draped over it in LRQ; yellow bath mat on a brown tiled floor; yellow walls and blue shower curtain

© Hugh Steers / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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