The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Untitled (portrait of a bearded man with glasses)
1970s
Image: 23.6 x 17.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 in.); Paper: 23.6 x 17.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2018.15
Location: not on view
Description
After the introduction of photography in India in the mid-1800s, the distinction between photography and painting were sometimes blurred, with paintings made to look like photographs, and photographs colored to look like paintings. This portrait photograph shows the continuance of that tradition into the mid-1900s. The realistic coloring of the face is embedded amid the more painterly, abstracted elements of beard, garments, and flat background.- {{cite web|title=Untitled (portrait of a bearded man with glasses)|url=false|author=|year=1970s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.15