Richard Avedon

John Lennon
1967

A vibrant pop art portrait featuring a high-contrast silhouette of a man with psychedelic spiral patterns in place of his eyes. The background is split diagonally between yellow and red, while the silhouette is rendered in a bright pink hue. The image has a caption at the bottom indicating the subject and the photographer for Look Magazine.

A vibrant pop art portrait featuring a high-contrast silhouette of a man with psychedelic spiral patterns in place of his eyes. The background is split diagonally between yellow and red, while the silhouette is rendered in a bright pink hue. The image has a caption at the bottom indicating the subject and the photographer for Look Magazine.

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Date
1967

Classification
Prints

Medium
Offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 31 1/8 × 22 1/2in. (79.1 × 57.2 cm)

Accession number
2000.88

Edition
Edition unknown

Publication
Published by NEMS Enterprises, Ltd.

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© 1967 The Richard Avedon Foundation

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