Slumberland XXX (Laura)
Artist: Jaume Plensa (Spanish, born 1955)
Date: 2014
Dimensions:
56 1/4 × 44 1/2 in. (142.9 × 113 cm)
Frame: 58 5/8 × 46 3/4 in. (148.9 × 118.7 cm)
Medium: Graphite on paper
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York
Object number: 2017.12
Label Text:While Jaume Plensa is known almost exclusively as a sculptor (see his sculptures Paula and Spiegel outside in the Museum’s sculpture garden), he regularly also produces elegiac and beautiful works on paper. In this contemplative work, a peaceful face seems to emerge into being out of nothingness. In creating the Slumberland drawings, a larger series of which this work is a part, the artist was inspired by the sensation of seeing the face of a loved one at so close a proximity that it becomes distorted.
Not on view