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Untitled (Marble Statue of a Member of the Imperial Family, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

2015

Larry Merrill

(American, b. 1948)
Culture
America
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
Image: 33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 in.); Paper: 43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist 2022.32
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This close-up view of a torso from the turn of the first century AD reads as a human form yet also suggests a modern, abstract planar sculpture.

Description

Seeing the dramatic play of highlights and shadows on this marble torso on view in the galleries of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, it is hard to believe that Larry Merrill made this image with whatever illumination he found in the gallery. Merrill makes these pictures as a regular visitor to the museum, so does not have the opportunity to set up extra lights, nor is he allowed to use flash.
An up close photograph of solely the fragmented torso of a marble statue. Light from the right highlights the musculature and dark grooves of the fragments cutting across the upper and lower torso. Tiny, dark scratches cover the marble and chunks from the left pec and upper abs have broken away, leaving rough stone.

Untitled (Marble Statue of a Member of the Imperial Family, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

2015

Larry Merrill

(American, b. 1948)
America

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