Gianfranco Gorgoni

Portrait of Artist (Robert Rauschenberg)
1976, printed 1980

Black and white photograph of a man leaning close to a taxidermied animal head, both looking directly at the camera. The man is wearing a striped shirt and has a contemplative expression. The image is framed with a white border, and there is a signature and date at the bottom left corner.
Black and white photograph of a man leaning close to a taxidermied animal head, both looking directly at the camera. The man is wearing a striped shirt and has a contemplative expression. The image is framed with a white border, and there is a signature and date at the bottom left corner.

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Date
1976, printed 1980

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) Image: 10 3/8 × 11 13/16in. (26.4 × 30 cm)

Accession number
2008.94

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Altria Group, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Gianfranco Gorgoni
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