Aubrey BeardsleyBritish, 1872–1898Untitled
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Where is “Untitled” now? Collection: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Whether it is on view today is unknown.
New Haven, United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Though Jean-Michel Basquiat famously referenced his childhood copy of Gray’s Anatomy in many images during his brief career, this early sheet instead portrays the decidedly nonhuman body of a late twentieth-century mechanomorph. The cyborg’s amalgamated figure—with green toga, protective helmet, and gesticulating arms—speaks to the artist’s own mixed cultural heritage: Basquiat grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a French-speaking Haitian father and a Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican mother. The artist’s choice of thick, oil-based crayons enhances the awkward, yet self-conscious, graffiti-based style of this bravura drawing.
Yale University Art Gallery
Details
- Accession number
- 2008.19.918
In the catalog
Sources
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Image: Yale University Art Gallery — Image: Yale University Art Gallery · In Copyright
