Untitled, 1970
Beginning in 1966, Samaras made a series of lacelike drawings, each cut from a single sheet of paper. This portfolio consists of twelve delicately cut and layered pages, each featuring circular patterns surrounding a drawn square. Marked "PRIVATE" on the top sheet, the subsequent imagery depicts stencils, scissors, razor blades, concentric colored squares, and scalloped forms. Embedded in one black box is an image of a skull; in another, tiny erotic photographs are encased within rainbow-colored triangles.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled, 1970
- Artist: Lucas Samaras (American (born Greece), Kastoria 1936–2024 New York)
- Date: 1970
- Medium: Colored porous pen, graphite, matte black paint, and collage of cut paper, printed paper, and cut silver gelatin photographs on cut paper
- Dimensions: 22 × 14 in. (55.9 × 35.6 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Arnold and Milly Glimcher, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.416.25a-l
- Rights and Reproduction: ©Lucas Samaras
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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