Ideal Head

Currently not on view

Ideal Head

2000

Carlo Maria Mariani (Italian, born 1931)

Mariani, an Italian figurative painter who lives and works in New York, has intensely investigated the art-historical past-and especially that of the late eighteenth century-in developing his loosely referential, imagined approach to Neoclassical art, which informs this enormous "classical" head.

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Object Details

Title:

Ideal Head

Date:

2000

Artist:

Carlo Maria Mariani (Italian, born 1931)

Medium:

Colored pencil and watercolor with charcoal, pastel, and graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on dark beige wove paper, mounted down

Dimensions:

Sheet: 23 7/16 x 24 inches (59.5 x 61 cm) Mount: 27 3/4 x 29 1/8 inches (70.5 x 74 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Spain, 2002

Accession Number:

2002-165-1

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