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Dwarf Head (Blue)
Details
Paul McCarthy (b. 1945)
Dwarf Head (Blue)
platinum-based silicone and wood crate
head: 19 ¼ x 15 5/8 x 20in. (48.9 x 39.7 x 50.8cm.)
crate: 23 5/8 x 25 3/8 x 30 ¾in. (60 x 64.5 x 78.1cm.)
overall: 42 7/8 x 41 x 70 ¾in. (108.9 x 104.2 x 179.7cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is from a series of seven unique works, each in a different colour plus two artist's proofs
Dwarf Head (Blue)
platinum-based silicone and wood crate
head: 19 ¼ x 15 5/8 x 20in. (48.9 x 39.7 x 50.8cm.)
crate: 23 5/8 x 25 3/8 x 30 ¾in. (60 x 64.5 x 78.1cm.)
overall: 42 7/8 x 41 x 70 ¾in. (108.9 x 104.2 x 179.7cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is from a series of seven unique works, each in a different colour plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Patrick Painter Inc, Los Angeles.
Frank Cohen Collection, London.
Private Collection, New York.
Frank Cohen Collection, London.
Private Collection, New York.
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Patrick Painter Inc., Mike Kelley / Paul McCarthy, Out O’Actions, 2000 (another example from the series
exhibited).
Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, My Reality: The Culture of Japanese Animation, 2001-2004, pp. 22 and 71 (another example from the series exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, p. 23). This exhibition later travelled to Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art Center; Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center; Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center; Akron, Akron Art Museum; Tacoma, International Center for Contemporary Art; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art and Huntsville, The Huntsville Museum of Art.
New York, Nyehaus, Paul McCarthy: Between Beauty and the Beast, Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs, 2006, no. 14 (another example from the series exhibited, illustrated in colour and installation view illustrated in colour, unpaged).
exhibited).
Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, My Reality: The Culture of Japanese Animation, 2001-2004, pp. 22 and 71 (another example from the series exhibited, installation view illustrated in colour, p. 23). This exhibition later travelled to Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art Center; Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center; Tampa, Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center; Akron, Akron Art Museum; Tacoma, International Center for Contemporary Art; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art and Huntsville, The Huntsville Museum of Art.
New York, Nyehaus, Paul McCarthy: Between Beauty and the Beast, Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs, 2006, no. 14 (another example from the series exhibited, illustrated in colour and installation view illustrated in colour, unpaged).
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