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Faced Faces

1971
(American, 1919–2003)
America
color lithograph on wove paper
Sheet: 76.3 x 57.1 cm (30 1/16 x 22 1/2 in.); Image: 68.2 x 50.5 cm (26 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 2022.253
Edition: edition of 99
Impression: 12
Location: not on view
This artwork is known to be under copyright.

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Herbert Gentry described the type of imagery featured in this print, saying that “there’s a certain spontaneity that exists. I work with . . . my subconscious . . . I don’t calculate . . . and the form plays the great role. The figures come into it . . . they are the types that I’ve met in my life . . . my base is African American.”

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Herbert Gentry belonged to a loosely formed group of artists who sought to evolve a specifically Black form of abstraction during the mid-20th century. He grew up in Harlem and lived in Paris after serving there in World War II. Gentry met and became closely associated with the Danish artistic collective CoBrA, whose work fused figuration and abstraction. Here, he used the gestural lines achievable in lithography to render layers of faces that fuse with bold planes of color to expressionistic effect.
Faced Faces

Faced Faces

1971

Herbert Gentry

(American, 1919–2003)
America

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