The Black, Yellow, Red Mouth
- Artist
- Arnulf Rainer, Austrian, born 1929
- Date
- 1971
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 19 3/8 x 23 7/16 in. (49.2 x 59.5 cm)
sheet: 19 3/8 x 23 7/16 in. (49.2 x 59.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Shop Fund
- Rights
- © Arnulf Rainer
- Object Number
- 62:1989
NOTES
Arnulf Rainer first developed the "Face Farce" series in an automatic photo booth at the train station in Vienna. Once inside the booth, Rainer worked up his facial muscles to a point of intense agitation, believing it tapped into channels of the irrational self. Rainer later rephotographed and handcolored these images as a way to amplify the expression captured by the photograph.
Provenance
- 1989
David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, purchased from the artist [1]
1989 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from David Nolan Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Katherine Chan, director of the Nolan/Eckman Gallery indicated that David Nolan purchased the work directly from artist [email dated April 9, 2005, SLAM document files].
[2] Invoice dated April 25, 1989 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collection Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 25, 1989.
David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, purchased from the artist [1]
1989 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from David Nolan Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Katherine Chan, director of the Nolan/Eckman Gallery indicated that David Nolan purchased the work directly from artist [email dated April 9, 2005, SLAM document files].
[2] Invoice dated April 25, 1989 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collection Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 25, 1989.