No Title (The Ugly American)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1962
- Dimensions
- 77 1/2 x 102 3/8" (197 x 260 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Hervé Télémaque
Artist
Hervé Télémaque was a Haitian painter whose work merged abstract gestural mark-making with figural and symbolic imagery drawn from Caribbean history and diaspora experience. Active from the 1960s onward, he developed a distinctive visual language that layered geometric abstraction, portraiture, and collage elements to engage questions of identity, colonialism, and displacement. His paintings combined bold chromatic fields with densely worked surfaces that resisted easy legibility. This profile will be expanded as more verified source material becomes available.
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Sun Hook (Accroche soleil)
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1973 · Screenprint
Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)
1972 · Screenprint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Hervé Télémaque
- Year
- 1962
- Dimensions
- 77 1/2 x 102 3/8" (197 x 260 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1962-M120626
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified