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Picasso Goes to Heaven

1973–76

Red Grooms

(American, b. 1937)
Culture
America
Medium
etching colored by stencil with watercolor
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift 1978.31
Catalogue raisonné
Alexander & Cowles 32
Copyright
© Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS)
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Picasso Goes to Heaven, like Groom's three-dimensional construction, Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church, is a zany, cartoonlike scene teeming with visual clutter. In this animated caricature, Grooms pokes fun at Picasso with the same gusto he used to describe the raucous exhilaration of urban life. Art is rarely so amusing. As Grooms says, "Humor is like boxing. You set 'em up. Then, whammo!"
Colorful, cartoon-like square print cluttered with objects and faces. In the lower center, a round person with a medium-light skin tone, party hat and halo, mouth open in a grin, and seated on a swing, looks up towards a pink-cheeked person falling over their head with a halo and in a checkered suit. Other haloed people and nude angel-like figures cluster around against a barely visible blue background.

Picasso Goes to Heaven

1973–76

Red Grooms

(American, b. 1937)
America

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