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24 x 17-3/4 x 3/4 in.
Accession NumberGift of Xenia and J. Irwin Miller
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In one of the first multiple sculptures produced at Gemini, Lichtenstein looked back at arte moderne of the 1930s, specifically the "Heads" painted by Russian constructivist Alexei Jawlensky, in which the language of Cubism was resuited to the machine age.
Lichtenstein said: "What interested me was -‘what in the world a modern head could be about'-I mean to make a man look as if its been made by an engineering draftsman." Accordingly, he recreated an arte moderne painting as an engineered and machined work in solid brass.
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