Lucas Samaras

Head #118

1981

Bearded man’s portrait with half his face painted blue and the other half red.
Bearded man’s portrait with half his face painted blue and the other half red.

Lucas Samaras, Head #118, 1981. Pastel on paper, sheet: 17 9/16 × 11 1/2 in. (44.6 × 29.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2002.150

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Not on view

Date
1981

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pastel on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 17 9/16 × 11 1/2 in. (44.6 × 29.2 cm)

Accession number
2002.150

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/16609





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