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Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras

1936–2024

WA-00000462

Sculpture

Representation

None documented

28

Institutional Exhibitions

162

Works in Collection

279

Assets Indexed

11

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

70%

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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (1)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Drawing since 1940

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Contemporary Works from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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Still Life

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981–1982

No image

Words and Pictures

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Artists and Writers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Dream/Reality/Dream

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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American Drawn and Matched

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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Lucas Samaras 1974

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975

Field Verification (6 fields)

4 cross-verified · 2 single-source

NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%✓
Birth yearArtsy + Gallery Pace· 92%✓
Death yearWikidata + Gallery Pace· 92%✓
DeceasedGallery Pace· 80%✓
BiographyGallery Pace + Gallery Generic· 80%
LocationWikidata· 80%

Source Registry (4)

Pace-Galleryhttps://www.pacegallery.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/lucas-samaras
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/lucas-samaras
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5134
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Lucas Samaras yet.

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Movement

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Medium

Sculpture

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (162)

Pose 0520 Cindy Sherman

Pose 0520 Cindy Sherman

2010 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0572 Ingrid Sischy

Pose 0572 Ingrid Sischy

2010 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0589 Marie-Josee Kravis

Pose 0589 Marie-Josee Kravis

2010 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0353 Joel Ehrenkranz

Pose 0353 Joel Ehrenkranz

2010 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0386 Peter MacGill

Pose 0386 Peter MacGill

2010 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0183 Jasper Johns

Pose 0183 Jasper Johns

2009 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0065 Agnes Gund

Pose 0065 Agnes Gund

2009 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0227 Leonard Lauder

Pose 0227 Leonard Lauder

2009 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose 0216 Alex Katz

Pose 0216 Alex Katz

2009 · Inkjet print

32 × 18" (81.3 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ecdysiast and Viewers

Ecdysiast and Viewers

2006 · 25 iMovies (color, sound; 5:48 min.), 24 HD monitors, 26 MacMini computers

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Heads Mix Table 32

Heads Mix Table 32

2003 · Inkjet print

28 1/2 × 23" (72.4 × 58.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Head

1986 · Internal dye diffusion transfer print

Image: 24.1 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 27.5 × 21.4 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head

1986 · Internal dye diffusion transfer print

Image: 24.1 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 27.5 × 24.1 cm (10 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head (Peter MacGill)

Head (Peter MacGill)

1986 · Color instant print (Polacolor ER)

9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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1986 · Collage of color instant prints (Polacolor ER)

13 7/8 × 15 7/8" (35.3 × 40.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Head (Donald Kuspit)

Head (Donald Kuspit)

1986 · Color instant print (Polacolor II)

9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ultra-Large

1983 · Internal dye diffusion transfer print

Art Institute of Chicago

Panorama, 1983–86

Panorama, 1983–86

1983 · Internal dye diffusion transfer prints (Grid of photographic strips)

Image: 35.5 × 53 cm (14 × 20 7/8 in.); frame: 55.9 × 73.1 cm (22 1/16 × 28 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Panorama

1983 · Collage of internal dye diffusion transfer prints

Image, approx: 25 × 45 cm (9 7/8 × 17 3/4 in.); Paper, approx: 29 × 47 cm (11 7/16 × 18 9/16 in.); Frame: 44.3 × 66.6 × 4 cm (17 1/2 × 26 1/4 × 1 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Panorama

1983 · Collage of color instant prints

7 3/8 × 94 1/8" (18.8 × 239.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ultra-Large Lucas

Ultra-Large Lucas

1983 · Color instant print (Polacolor ER)

106 × 43 1/4" (269.2 × 109.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Panorama

1983 · Collage of color instant prints (Polacolor ER)

31 3/4 × 8 1/2" (80.6 × 21.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Panorama

1983 · Collage of color instant prints

Overall 15 1/2 × 32 9/16" (39.4 × 82.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1983 · Ink wash on paper

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

162 published of 262 catalogued · 198 with image

MoMA
100 publishedof 200 catalogued143 img
Art Institute Chicago
53 published53 img
The Met
7 published
Tate
2 published2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Box #61
1967 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Lucas Samaras artist at work cropped

Wikimedia Commons

Lucas Samaras artist at work cropped

Wikimedia Commons

Lucas Samaras (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Relationships

6

Collections6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Christie's Phillips Pace Gallery

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Pace Gallery

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

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