222. #35

• Posted in: Collage, Couple, People

Title: #35 (working title)
Date: 1974
Subject: Man and woman interacting
Measurements: 6 ½” W x 7 ½” H
Materials and Techniques: Paperboard, cutouts from reproduction postcards and/or art books, acetate covering
Description: A cut out of a bust (St. John the Baptist, 1513-16, Leonardo da Vinci, Italian, Vinci 1452-1519 Amboise, Metropolitan Museum of Art) with the image of an anus covering her face is conversing with a man wearing a black top hat (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, Albi 1864-1901 Saint André-du-Bois). This man’s face is represented with the image of a woman’s body (Large Reclining Nude, 1935, Henri Matisse, French, Le Cateau-Cambresis, 1869-1954 Nice, The Baltimore Museum of Art). His hand cups her breast.
Signed: “Norman S. Green 74” written in pen on front lower-right corner
Note: From the Pictorial Puzzler Series. Identified as #35 on back label. Figures and objects also identified on back label.