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Face Sculpture with Bird

c. 1939

György Kepes

Associated Names

György Kepes

Artist, American, born Hungary, 1906 - 2001

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Gift of Manfred Heiting, Los Angeles
Dimensions

image/sheet: 35.5 × 28.3 cm (14 × 11 1/8 in.)
Accession Number

2025.100.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles); Manfred Heiting, Los Angeles, 30 June 2019; gift to NGA, 2025.

Associated Names

Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Heiting

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, top right in graphite: GYORGY KEPES; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite underlined: 19

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