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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA
Headless Man Trying to Drink2005

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Artist or Maker
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA
United Kingdom, London, born 1962, active Nigeria, Lagos and London
Title
Headless Man Trying to Drink
Date Made
2005
Medium
Fiberglass mannequin, shoes, Dutch wax-printed cotton, polymer-gypsum fountain, water pump, and wood
Dimensions
58 × 72 7/8 × 48 1/8 in. (147.32 × 185.17 × 122.17 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Emily and Teddy Greenspan
Accession Number
M.2024.151.2
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Lawson, Dhyandra. Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art & Poetics. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.