Untitled (After Yves St. Laurent)
- Date
- 2016
- Material
- Etching with acrylic
- made in
- Oakland, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 17 1/4 × 33 1/8 in. (43.8 × 84.1 cm)
sheet: 22 1/2 × 38 1/4 in. (57.2 × 97.2 cm)
framed: 26 5/8 × 42 1/16 in. (67.6 × 106.8 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
- Rights
- © Enrique Chagoya
- Object Number
- 529:2020
NOTES
Modern art and high fashion collide in dresses inspired by the painter Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944) and designed by Yves Saint Laurent (French, 1936–2008). With his usual insight, Enrique Chagoya modified this image of elite consumption by affixing the heads of vastly different cultural figures. The faces range from famed Mexican professional wrestler Blue Demon to a New Guinea Tambul warrior photographed by Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009). Chagoya probes the instabilities of identity and status, questioning the intersection of personhood and representation—just who is the “subject” and what is “art”?
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