Double Portrait of Henry Geldzahler

1967

Marisol (Marisol Escobar) Venezuelan and American, born France, 1930-2016

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The art of assemblage, preceding pop art, was the aesthetic propellant for Marisol. She explained her two-dimensional approach to sculpture by conceding that she was untrained and a bad carver. She compensated by adopting a method that included odd pieces of cast-off carpentry, stick-on parts, face masks, cast body parts, and common objects of all kinds. Fittingly, the artist chose as her subject Henry Geldzahler, the hip curator and critic who chronicled and sometimes participated in Happenings, pop art's theatrical sideshow. On two joined columns, the artist drew and painted differently posed versions of his head and striped-shirt-tie-and-pantsclad body.

Title Double Portrait of Henry Geldzahler

Artwork Date 1967

Artist Marisol (Marisol Escobar)

Life Dates born France

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Carved and painted wood

Dimensions Overall: 65 5/8 × 31 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (166.7 × 79.4 × 41.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Brooks Barron

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1993.71

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collection of S. Brooks Barron

1993-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Colby, Joy Hakanson. "DIA's 'double portrait' ranks as a singular gain." The Detroit News, September 9, 1994, 4D.

Beck, Jessica. Marisol and Warhol Take New York. Exh. cat., The Andy Warhol Museum. Pittsburgh, 2021, pp. 86-87, (ill.), p. 131.

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Marisol (Marisol Escobar), Double Portrait of Henry Geldzahler, 1967, carved and painted wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. S. Brooks Barron, 1993.71.