Small Cardboard Portrait 181
2021Dated
Size
12 x 9.06 in
Year
2021
Medium
Drawings
Reference
eb493365
Pencil on paper
1967 Essex, United Kingdom
Russell Herron has worked in a wide variety of mediums, most of his work has been conceptual. In recent years he has become known for a series of pencil drawings of cardboard faces. During the 2020-2022 lockdowns, he drew more than 100 of these little cardboard faces. "Once I sold the portraits, it was like these lost souls found a home," he says. "People seemed to really connect with them."
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Address
Hamburg, Bergstr. 11
In the almost two centuries of its existence, the Commeter Gallery has been part of Hamburg's art life significantly shaped. Since 1996, Carola Persiehl has been running the gallery, which was founded in 1821, in the fifth generation and presents contemporary international artists. "A magic dwells in each beginning", Hermann Hesse once wrote. When the art...
