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Robert Smithson, Self-Less Portrait [detail] (1962)
Oil and paper collage on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Artworks

Artwork categories RS

abstract painting with sharp black lines and brown and yellow tones

Pre-1960

a drawing of a top down view of two feet with spiral lines emanating from the ankle area

1960—1963

Robert Smithson's Enantiomorphic Chambers

1964—1966

A metal box filled with rocks and horizontal slots cut in the box on the floor and horizontal images on the wall.

1967—1968

grassy hilside with seven mirrors placed in line one behind the other on the ground

1969—1970

The earth and rock circle of Smithson's Amarillo Ramp spiraling out of the earth.

1971—1973

Featured Works

Painting with a the outline of a figure facing right with lines protruding from it leading to collaged paper around the periphery of the figure

Self-Less Portrait

Robert Smithson

1962

a mixed media collage in a circle with a yellow obscured figure in the center

Robert Smithson

1962

abstract chaotic grid painting of orange, brown, and earth tones

Robert Smithson

1959

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All images © Holt/Smithson Foundation, licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

Nancy Holt’s artworks Sun Tunnels (1973-76) and Holes of Light (1973), and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) are
© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation, licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

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