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Nicole Eisenman

Untitled, 2012

Description

Maker

  • Nicole Eisenman, American (b. France), (RISD BFA 1987, Painting)

Title

Untitled

Year

2012

Medium

Monotype

Dimensions

Image: 58.7 x 44.8 cm (23 1/8 x 17 5/8 inches) (sight)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Merrill Sherman in honor of Judith Tannenbaum

Object Number

2012.127.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Heads Up! Recent Gifts to the Collection

July 31, 2015 - January 10, 2016

The untitled monotype is from a group of portraits that reference the human condition more generally, rather than a specific sitter. Made of gestural, inky marks, the works allude to base instincts.

There is both humor and pathos in Eisenman’s representations. In one monotype, rivulets of tears obscure a face and pool at the bottom of the sheet. In the other, a cartoonish, fleshy figure—whose own head is perhaps replaced with a breast, or outlined above the breast—collides with an enormous head with crying eyes.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Untitled with the accession number of 2012.127.1. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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