Cut Paper Drawing

Lucas Samaras American, born Greece

1968

Not on view

In 1968 Samaras made a number of portraits, many based on his own profile and hands, by deftly cutting the image out of a single sheet of paper with an X-Acto knife. This work, which depicts his dealers Arne Glimcher and Fred Mueller, was included in a show of Samaras’s work at New York’s Pace Gallery in the fall of 1968. In a New York Times review of the show the critic called the cut-paper drawings "beautiful, sado-masochistic valentines laced with the familiar Samaras fetish objects."

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Title: Cut Paper Drawing
Artist: Lucas Samaras (American (born Greece), Kastoria 1936–2024 New York)
Date: 1968
Medium: Graphite on cut paper
Dimensions: 23 × 18 in. (58.4 × 45.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Arnold and Milly Glimcher, 1986
Object Number: 1986.416.24
Rights and Reproduction: ©Lucas Samaras
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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