Robert Heinecken

Untitled
1964–1968

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.
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.

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Date
1964–1968

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photo-offset lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 10in. (32.4 × 25.4 cm) Image: 10 15/16 × 7 13/16in. (27.8 × 19.8 cm)

Accession number
92.97.5

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/8214

Part of a series:
ARE YOU REA
24 works

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A monochromatic artwork depicting a close-up of a person's face with their hand gently touching their lips, overlaid with a faint image of an eye and a small bird in flight near the mouth. The image has a dreamlike, ethereal quality.
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Robert Heinecken
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