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A print featuring a large profile head whose cranium is replaced by a dense, complex mass of interwoven shapes and lines. Below are two realistically shaded, forward-facing portraits: a woman on the left and a man on the right.
Quid Faciemus?
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Quid Faciemus?

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1983
MediumSoft ground
DimensionsMat: 30 1/4 x 24 in. (76.84 x 60.96 cm)
Paper: 32 x 24 1/2 in. (81.28 x 62.23 cm)
Image: 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (59.69 x 44.45 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.50
Collections
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1984
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Jiri Anderle
1984
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1984
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Jiri Anderle
1985
A print with a large face gazing forward in the top left, holding a faintly outlined infant with an outstretched arm. On the right, a heavyset, wide-eyed bald man holds a tiny dangling figure in his fist. Faint outlines of other figures fill the lower area including a woman running with an infant in her arms.
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1984
A brown monochrome print featuring a portrait of a person with a large, curly wig holding a book. Above the portrait are illustrations of a peach, a halved peach, a butterfly, and a bunch of grapes.
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1988
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