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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Portrait of Sidney Janis Selling a Portrait of Sidney Janis by Marisol
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1967 - 1968
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Marisol (French, born 1930)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
French sculptor of Venezuelan descent. After studying painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1949) and then at the Art Students League (1950) and the Hans Hofmann School (19514) in New York, she developed an interest in Mexican, Pre-Columbian and American folk art and turned her attention to sculpture. In her early work she fashioned small, animated figurines out of bronze, terracotta and wood, often placing these pieces in compartmentalized, glass-fronted boxes, for example Printer's Box (1958; Mr and Mrs Edwin A. Bergman priv. col., see 1966 exh. cat., no. 4). In 1961 she began to incorporate drawing, painting, and objets trouvés into complex, life-size figure arrangements. Cast fragments of her own body and images of her face frequently appear in her works from this decade, many of which address the position of women in modern society. Women and Dog (1964; New York, Whitney) depicts a group of fashionable middle-class housewives parading in public wearing blank, masklike expressions; other works depict farm women and socialites in similarly constrained poses. Marisol's images of contemporary culture, at once deadpan and satirical in tone, were produced in the context of Pop art; the personal, enigmatic, often primitive elements of her work, however, set it apart from the mainstream of the movement. In the early 1970s she carved small, exotic fishes out of mahogany, with her own face on their polished, colourful bodies, and produced a series of prints and drawings with erotic, often violent overtones, such as Double Flower (coloured pencils and crayon, 1973; see 1975 exh. cat., no. 1). In the 1980s she returned to large-scale figural assemblages, creating a series of portrait 'homages' to well-known contemporary artists and personalities. http://www.groveart… accessed 2008-06-12>
Work Style Period:
Pop
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Pop
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false
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
satire
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satire
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
mixed-media on wood
Work Measurements (display):
175 cm (H) x 156 cm (W) x 55 cm (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid:
2356.1967.a-g
Work Location (Repository or Site) refid type:
accession
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Rights (display):
© Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed for educational use via Scholars Resource: Davis Art Images
Work Rights (display):
© Marisol Escobar
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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