Paul McCarthy

Class Fool

1976

Collage of multiple black-and-white and red-tinted photos showing a shirtless performer and band rehearsing.

Collage of multiple black-and-white and red-tinted photos showing a shirtless performer and band rehearsing.

Not on view

Date
1976

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Collage of fifty gelatin silver and chromogenic prints

Dimensions
Overall (Sight): 79 1/2 × 50 in. (201.9 × 127 cm) Frame: 83 1/8 × 53 3/8 in. (211.1 × 135.6 cm)

Accession number
2001.138.8

Edition
Vintage

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and Norah Sharpe Stone

Rights and reproductions
© Paul McCarthy; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

API
artworks/15640

Part of a series:
Combination Photographs
13 works

Contact sheet showing black-and-white studio portraits of a seated couple and a standing photographer.

Two people lean over a seated person, appearing to examine or treat them.

Collage of multiple black-and-white and red-tinted photos showing a shirtless performer and band rehearsing.

A series of black-and-white framed photographs showing repeated poses of a shirtless man on a gray wall.

Nude male model striking varied poses on a studio stage captured in multiple contact frames.

Man making expressive gestures while his large shadow appears across multiple black-and-white photobooth frames.

Multiple black-and-white photographs showing people arranging and filling stacked tires with fluffy material in a room.

Exhibitions

Paul McCarthy
41 works in the collection, 13 exhibitions

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