Varujan Boghosian

Night and Day (Orpheus and Pluto)
1963

A weathered wooden sphere with a cracked and textured surface is displayed within a square, deep-set wooden frame on a white wall. The sphere's right side appears to be disintegrating or covered with a growth of some kind, adding to its aged and deteriorated appearance.

A weathered wooden sphere with a cracked and textured surface is displayed within a square, deep-set wooden frame on a white wall. The sphere's right side appears to be disintegrating or covered with a growth of some kind, adding to its aged and deteriorated appearance.

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Date
1963

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Wood, steel and nails

Dimensions
Overall: 12 1/8 × 12 1/4 × 7 3/8in. (30.8 × 31.1 × 18.7 cm)

Accession number
66.15

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/1928

Exhibitions

Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Pollock to Today

Dec 7, 2000–Feb 10, 2002

Varujan Boghosian
2 works in the collection

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