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Lucas Samaras
Untitled1963

Not on view
Mixed-media sculpture of a wooden box covered on all sides with densely packed gold-toned nails, with two grayscale human faces printed on the front panel and colorful yarn spilling from open drawers on the left side
Mixed-media sculpture in the form of a small cabinet or chest, densely covered on all surfaces with hundreds of outward-pointing metal nails or pins, creating a bristling, spiky exterior; dark painted wood visible beneath.
Artist or Maker
Lucas Samaras
Greece, Kastoria, active United States, 1936-2024
Title
Untitled
Place Made
Greece
Date Made
1963
Medium
Box, photographs, pins, colored yarn
Dimensions
10 1/4 x 14 3/8 x 8 in. (26.04 x 36.51 x 20.32 cm)
Credit Line
Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Bequest
Accession Number
AC1999.35.48
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Terpak, Frances and Michelle Brunnick. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Archive. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2016.
  • Meyer, James. Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • Judd, Donald. Donald Judd: writings. New York: Judd Foundation: David Zwirner Books, 2016.
  • Lucas Samaras: Boxes. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971.