Great Mother Birth

1. The artist; transferred to the Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2009; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 2, 2026.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nancy Spero, London, Mar. 11–Apr. 19. 1987, no cat. no.; Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, May 9–June 13, 1987; Derry, Orchard Gallery / Foyle Arts Project, July 11–Sept. 12, 1987.
• New York, Galerie Lelong, Nancy Spero: Un Coup de Dent, Jan. 3–Feb. 21, 2009, no cat.
• Mexico City, Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemperaneo, Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror, Oct. 6, 2018–Feb. 17, 2019, no cat. no,; New York, MoMA PS1, Mar. 31–June 23, 2019.
• New York, Grey Art Museum, Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, Feb. 26–July 20, 2024, no cat. no.; Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Sept. 3–Jan. 5, 2025; Abu Dhabi, The New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Feb. 11–June 1, 2025.

• Lisa Tickner, Nancy Spero, exh. cat. (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987), 40 (ill.), 41.
• Susan Harris, "Nancy Spero: Un Coup de Dent," The Brooklyn Rail (February 2009): Online, https://brooklynrail.org/2009/02/artseen/nancy-spero-un-coup-de-dent/
• Lucy R. Lippard, Juan Andrés Gaitán, Jesse Ball, and Samm Kunce, Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, 2019), 48, 49 (color ill.), 201.
• Lynn Gumpert et al., Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, exh. cat. (New York: Grey Art Gallery, 2023), 151, fig. 145 (color ill.).

Woman Breathing

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Untitled (Cette chair qui se touche...)

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Untitled, (Il renonce au coit...)

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Untitled (Avec quels impossible...)

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Untitled

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Themis

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Cri du Coeur

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They Will Torture You, My Friend, from Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness

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