Wallace Berman

Untitled
1959

A collage featuring a black and white photograph of a man with a beard looking to the side and a hand-drawn sketch with abstract figures and symbols. The left side of the image includes vintage red 2-cent and a purple 4-cent U.S. postage stamps affixed to the surface, with handwritten text and postal markings providing a sense of correspondence.
A collage featuring a black and white photograph of a man with a beard looking to the side and a hand-drawn sketch with abstract figures and symbols. The left side of the image includes vintage red 2-cent and a purple 4-cent U.S. postage stamps affixed to the surface, with handwritten text and postal markings providing a sense of correspondence.

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Date
1959

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Photomontage, ink and collage on board

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 5/16in. (11.4 × 16 cm) Image: 4 1/2 × 6 5/16in. (11.4 × 16 cm) Mount (board): 4 1/2 × 6 5/16 × 1/16in. (11.4 × 16 × 0.2 cm)

Accession number
96.242.1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Lannan Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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artworks/11064

Wallace Berman
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