Magician

Artist Nicholas "Nick" Bubash (American, 1949 - 2021)

Publisher The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date1998

MediumLithograph on Arches Cover buff paper

DimensionsImage: 21 1/2 × 17 1/2 inches (54.61 × 44.45 cm)
Sheet: 24 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches (62.87 × 46.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger

Object number2023.40.5

Edition/State/Proof20/30

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Contemporary Art

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DescriptionImage in black, blue, yellow, red and pink. In the center, a man’s torso dressed in a black jacket, black trousers, a white shirt with black stripes, and a blue and black checked cummerbund sits on a pink table with a yellow rim and bulging black legs that end in points. Five balls of different colors rest on the table. The figure has no neck or head; red and yellow flames cover the top of him, cascading over his shoulders and down his back. His proper left hand holds a blue head or helmet from which sprouts a bouquet of roses; an elaborately looped rope dangles below it. On the lower right, four yellow parakeets under the table. His proper right arm ends in a metallic hand held wide open. A yellow robe loops around the arm and hand and a spotted cloth hangs from it. In the upper left corner, butterflies and playing cards. A blue curtain in undulating folds in the background.Provenance

Provenance

C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

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