Ernst Haas
Torn Poster, New York

Torn Poster, New York
Torn Poster, New York
Torn Poster, New York
ArtistAmerican, born Austria, 1921–1986
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Torn Poster, New York
Date1960
MediumDye imbibition print
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 22 5/8 in. (37.5 × 57.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 23 1/4 in. (40.5 × 59.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1246
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

By 1960 the photographer Ernst Haas had grown tired of taking realistic pictures of the world around him and instead wanted to create abstract images drawn from his surroundings. He began to make photographs using extreme close-ups and also began printing his images in altered colors in order to abstract the original source. Torn Poster’s torn purple-tinted bills and blocky color scheme suggest a mystical landscape or an abstract collage rather than a worn city wall.


ProvenanceArtist; Galerie Stockeregg, Zürich.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Zur Stockereggon 10/2/1986.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
lower right on the image in pencil[?] "Ernst Haas"

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