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Raymond Pettibon
No Title (What is a Kennedy)1988

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Ink drawing on white paper, comic-panel format with a dramatically foreshortened skull viewed from below and a finger pressing upward against the chin; hand-lettered text reads 'What Is a Kennedy?' and 'The bullet passed from his brain into my heart'

Raymond Pettibon, No Title (What is a Kennedy), 1988, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Pasadena Art Alliance, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Raymond Pettibon
Title
No Title (What is a Kennedy)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1988
Medium
Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions
14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Pasadena Art Alliance
Accession Number
M.2000.97.2
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Gioni, Massimiliano, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, eds. Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work. London: Phaidon Press, 2017.
Copyright
© Raymond Pettibon