Folio I / Folder 27 (“Biconjugate (Twice Paired)”)

Josef Albers, Printed at Sirocco Screenprints, Published by Ives-Sillman, Inc.

1972

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photorealist
A heavily worked ink drawing of the head and shoulders of a black man, against a white ground. The figure’s skin is rendered with striated (inkless) passages that suggest musculature or keyloidal scarring. The ink is so densely applied in parts that the paper takes on a burnished sheen.
Two men in dark suits face each other and hold an unpeeled banana between them in their mouths.
Black and white squares and shapes of other colors in four horizontal rows on a yellow background.