Untitled
A technically intricate layering of collage, photomontage, and photography contributes to this schematic head’s unsettlingly aggressive impact. A member of London’s Independent Group, Henderson is best known for his experimental photograms and stressed photographs and for his contributions to the 1956 "This is Tomorrow" exhibition. Henderson was inspired by Dada photomontage and Surrealist collage, which he encountered firsthand through his mother’s work with Peggy Guggenheim’s Guggenheim Jeune gallery in late 1930s London. He subsequently became a vital source of information about Dada and Surrealism for fellow Independent Group artists Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton, whose intensive engagement with Marcel Duchamp’s oeuvre took off when Henderson loaned him his copy of the Green Box.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Nigel Henderson (British, 1917–1985)
- Date: 1954
- Medium: Collage of cut and torn photographs and found printed papers on paper
- Dimensions: 15 × 11 7/8 in. (38.1 × 30.2 cm)
- Classifications: Works on Paper, Photographs
- Credit Line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
- Object Number: 2007.49.48
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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