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All eight color settings of Peter Wirth's Nefertiti linocut, hung side by side

Conjectures on Nefertiti

In 1993 the Egyptian Museum in Berlin showed Peter Wirth's Nefertiti cycle under the title Mutmaßungen über Nofretete — Conjectures on Nefertiti. The catalogue text was written by Dietrich Wildung, then director of the museum (Dietrich Wildung / Peter Wirth, Mutmaßungen über Nofretete, published by the Verein zur Förderung des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin e.V., Berlin 1993). Two passages from that text stand on the artist's page, quoted with his kind permission.

Two techniques, one subject. Ten paintings in acrylic on unprimed cotton canvas, from the cycle painted between 1987 and 1992, and eight linocuts of 2004/05 in which the same profile returns in eight color settings.

Nefertiti was Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten — a queen, not a goddess of the Egyptian pantheon. One work in this group is different: a crocodile-headed figure we read as Sobek, the crocodile god of the Nile.

Everything here is an open-edition pigment print after the original. The eight linocut sheets are prints after original linocuts — they are not linocuts, and each product page says so plainly. Prints are not numbered and not capped, and the signature on each sheet is printed, not applied by hand.

Seven gallery walls are drawn from this group: three, six or all eight color settings of the cut profile, and three, six, nine or all ten of the paintings, hung so the ground opens from shadow into color. Each size is contained in the next, so a wall can be grown without buying anything twice. A set costs less than the same sheets bought singly, ships as one parcel, and every sheet in it carries its own certificate.

These sheets are offered in one size only — 8 × 10 inches in the United States, 20 × 25 cm in Germany. The archive photographs support that sheet at full printing resolution and no larger. We do not upscale.

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A green shoulder, a white stream, a blue field. Calm and wide — Peter Wirth
Green Shoulder, White Stream Price$99.00
An ochre face on blue, a red stroke at the edge — Peter Wirth
Ochre Face on Blue Price$99.00
Coral as the ground, a blue-gray figure before it. The warmest of the ten paintings — Peter Wirth
Head in Coral Light Price$99.00
Gray, blue, a rising outline — painting held deliberately in reserve — Peter Wirth
Gray Head, Rising Price$99.00
A dark arch over a lighter field, two red marks above. Nearly monochrome — Peter Wirth
The Dark Arch Price$99.00
Emerald on deep blue, a pale band running across — Peter Wirth
Emerald Crown in Deep Blue Price$99.00
Black, white, a remnant of blue. The most severe of the ten paintings — Peter Wirth
Black Water, White Light Price$99.00
Pale green over rose. The form rises out of the ground without leaving it — Peter Wirth
Pale Head on Rose Ground Price$99.00
A crocodile-headed figure over blue-violet: a long jaw, a row of conical teeth, a narrow eye — and beneath it an upright body — Peter Wirth
Shadow of Sobek Price$99.00
A head in green and rose — more movement than likeness — Peter Wirth
Crown in Green and Rose Price$99.00
Blue at the lower right, a red band above, paper in between. The airiest of the eight linocuts — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Blue Price$99.00
Orange and red in short cuts — the profile all but dissolves into a pattern — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Orange and Red Price$99.00
Navy against rose and turquoise. The same form, now reduced to poster-flat color — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Navy and Rose Price$99.00
Red on sage green, with a word cut into the headdress. The loudest of the eight — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Red and Sage Price$99.00
Green on cornflower blue. Two colors, no third. The cut alone carries the image — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Green and Cornflower Price$99.00
Cut white against olive green, a yellow “NO” along the lower edge. The quietest of the eight — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Olive Price$99.00
Cobalt blue over a fine web of lines — the same crown, this time almost a drawing — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Cobalt and Gray Price$99.00
Nefertiti's profile cut in red: dense hatching, a yellow “N”, and the white of the paper — Peter Wirth
Nefertiti in Red Price$99.00
Nefertiti in Color · Three by Peter Wirth, the hanging of 3 sheets
Nefertiti in Color · Three Price$249.00
Nefertiti in Color · Six by Peter Wirth, the hanging of 6 sheets
Nefertiti in Color · Six Price$479.00
Nefertiti in Color · Eight by Peter Wirth, the hanging of 8 sheets
Nefertiti in Color · Eight Price$629.00