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Edward Kienholz
Untitled1956

Not on view
Mixed-media painting, heavily textured near-abstract portrait, figure built from dark layered strips and thick impasto paint against a charcoal ground

Edward Kienholz, Untitled, 1956, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Edward Kienholz
Title
Untitled
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1956
Medium
Wood construction
Dimensions
35 7/8 x 26 1/4 in. (91.12 x 66.68 cm)
Credit Line
The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection
Accession Number
M.88.236.18
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Steinberg, Monica. Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Copyright
© The Edward and Nancy Kienholz Foundation, Inc. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.

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