Robert Heinecken

Untitled

1964–1968

Black and white artwork featuring a layered composition with a woman's face and the text "ARE YOU REA" in bold letters, suggesting a question that might be "ARE YOU REAL" or "ARE YOU READY." The image has a gritty, textured appearance with abstract elements.
Black and white artwork featuring a layered composition with a woman's face and the text "ARE YOU REA" in bold letters, suggesting a question that might be "ARE YOU REAL" or "ARE YOU READY." The image has a gritty, textured appearance with abstract elements.

Not on view

Date
1964–1968

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photo-offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 10in. (32.4 × 25.4 cm) Image: 10 3/4 × 7 7/8in. (27.3 × 20 cm)

Accession number
92.97.1

Edition
289/500

Publication
Printed and published by Robert Heinecken

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Lilyan S. and Toby Miller

Rights and reproductions
© The Robert Heinecken Trust

API
artworks/8210

Part of a series:
ARE YOU REA
24 works

A high-contrast black and white image of a person's face with a superimposed effect creating a double exposure look. The face has an ethereal quality with eyes that appear to be looking in different directions. Below the image, there is a caption that reads "you don't have to be an angel... just look like one!" The overall tone of the image is artistic and abstract.
A black and white artistic print featuring a stylized portrait of a person's face with textured, dark areas resembling makeup or paint. Above the image, text reads "The make-up that's Barely There" in a decorative font. The background is white with some gradient shading on the sides.
This image features a collage of black and white photographs and text fragments. The central figure is a woman's face with a distorted, pixelated effect, overlaid with smaller images of faces and body parts. Text snippets with phrases like "STEP BY STEP" and "beauty treatment" suggest a theme related to beauty or cosmetics. The overall composition has a fragmented, abstract quality.
A black and white abstract artwork featuring a distorted photographic image of a figure with a prominent head and facial features, set against a brick wall background, centered on a white canvas.
A black and white printed image featuring a collage of various figures and textures with a block of text at the top left corner that reads "The proud Italian sauce. It changed 17 million minds about packaged spaghetti dinners." The overall composition is abstract with overlapping elements making it difficult to distinguish individual details.
A black and white artwork featuring a fragmented and layered image of a human figure against a white background, with text partially visible at the top left corner.
A monochromatic artwork featuring a collage of images with the text "THE FORTUNATE, FASHIONABLE RESCUE" at the top. The central image shows a woman and a child, with the child appearing to be in the foreground holding a camera or binoculars. The images have a grainy, photocopied quality, and are set against a white background with a wide border.
A monochromatic artwork featuring a fragmented and abstracted image of a figure, possibly male, with discernible elements such as a shoulder and head, set against a textured background, all contained within a white border.
A high-contrast black and white image depicting a stylized figure with raised arms, superimposed over a background of cylindrical shapes with the word "NOCA" visible on them. The figure appears ethereal due to the printing technique, giving it a ghostly presence. The image has a border of white space around it.
Black and white artwork featuring a layered composition with a woman's face and the text "ARE YOU REA" in bold letters, suggesting a question that might be "ARE YOU REAL" or "ARE YOU READY." The image has a gritty, textured appearance with abstract elements.

Robert Heinecken
41 works in the collection, 3 exhibitions

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