Object number2008.7.91

Magnus Bischofberger

Date1984

Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)

CultureAmerican

MediumInstant dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid Polacolor ER)

DimensionsImage: 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. (9.5 x 7.3 cm)
Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in honor of its 20th anniversary

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper edge in pencil: FA07.00145; lower right corner: RM

MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower left and right in blue ink (each within a circle): Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts [A / W at center]; The Estate / of / Andy Warhol; stamped lower center in black ink: POLACOLOR®L48652PG

BibliographyYounger Than Today: Photographs of Children (and sometimes their mothers) by Andy Warhol. Albany, NY: University Art Museum, University at Albany, 2018, p. 9; Lombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 105 ProvenanceThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Vassar Exhibitions

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryYounger Than Today: Photographs of Children (and sometimes their mothers) by Andy Warhol, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, June 29 - September 15, 2018;

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
DescriptionPortrait of a young boy, Magnus Bischofberger, with red hair, smiling, wearing a sweater vest and white shirt, and holding his shoulders with the opposite hands. He smiles broadly and looks directly at the camera.

Terms

male

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