Reference: Recorded and illustrated in the standard text cataloging the orginal graphics of the artist by Glenn No. 125.


Note: Work found in several museum collections.

The title Coin Noir, French for "black corner," refers to the theoretical concept of the black hole, a term first used in the mid-1960s. Rosenquist plays with this notion by placing three spherical shapes indicative of the moon as well as molecular and nuclear particles in front of a black background speckled with white dots, creating a terrain akin to that of a starry night sky. With each astral element occupying the same amount of space, the size of the moon is equated to that of an atom. The artist, by setting up a tension between the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, insinuates that the universe abides by its own set of rules, that there is still much left for us to discover. (see https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/14140.)