
Life Mask (Gemini G.E.L. 941, C. 41)
A lithograph depicting a life mask, created as part of Gemini G.E.L.'s production series. Bruce Nauman's work explores themes of identity and the human form through this cast-based printmaking process.
- Medium
- Lithograph, on Arches Cover paper, with full margins.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
September 14, 2022
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Jasper Johns
American · b. 1930

Johns similarly uses lithography and printmaking to explore identity and the human body as subject matter, particularly in his body cast works and Gemini G.E.L. collaborations that investigate the tension between representation and abstraction.

Vito Acconci
American · b. 1940

Acconci shares Nauman's conceptual focus on the body as a primary site of identity investigation, using the physical self as both medium and subject in ways that parallel the life mask as a direct indexical record of human presence.

Kiki Smith
American · b. 1954

Smith creates prints and cast works centered on the human figure and questions of bodily identity, frequently working with printmaking techniques on fine papers that closely mirror Nauman's approach in this lithograph on Arches Cover paper.
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