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Blue Hair, Block Eyes, Cube Cheeks, Striped Lips Now!

Watercolour
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

colourful portrait of a woman, with the title 'Blue Hair, Block Eyes, Cube Cheeks, Striped Lips Now!'

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleBlue Hair, Block Eyes, Cube Cheeks, Striped Lips Now! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
pen and ink and watercolour
Brief description
Blue Hair, Block Eyes, Cube Cheeks, Striped Lips Now! Head series, 1967 by Barbara Nessim
Physical description
colourful portrait of a woman, with the title 'Blue Hair, Block Eyes, Cube Cheeks, Striped Lips Now!'
Dimensions
  • Width: 179mm
  • Height: 261mm
Marks and inscriptions
107_1967_10.25 x 7 written on the reverse 62 marked in the top left corner
Gallery label
Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life (V&A, 2013; Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 2014-15)

9. He's the Crazy Coney Island Kid, Who?
10. Electric Girl Holding a Candle
11. Weekend in Woodstock
12. Woman in a Green Hat
13. LSD #4
14. The Only Square-Breasted Girl in Captivity
15. Blue Hair, Block Eyes, Cube Cheeks, Striped Lips. Now!
1967

Between 1966 and ’69, Nessim made a series of distinctive watercolour, pen and ink drawings of women. They each have an evocative caption and explore ‘aspects of the female social mask’. Weekend in Woodstock was created for her friend the graphic designer Milton Glaser, who produced the iconic poster of Bob Dylan that can be seen in Room 73.

Pen and ink and watercolour
Museum nos. E.18 to 24-2013
Credit line
Given by the artist
Collection
Accession number
E.21-2013

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Record createdNovember 23, 2012
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