The Kiss

Description

In this print, Marisol juxtaposed negative and positive space to create perceptual reversals that are especially poignant when one discovers that the shapes are the artist's face and hands. In Marisol's work throughout the 1960s and 1970s, hands and fingers recur as signifiers of autoerotic content.

The Kiss

Marisol

1965

Accession Number

97937

Medium

Color lithograph from three stones on white wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 30.5 × 26 cm (12 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 57 × 44 cm (22 1/2 × 17 3/8 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund