Lucas Samaras

unique mural-sized Polaroid Polacolor print, framed, 1983

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

Boston University Art Gallery, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (a continuation of a portion of the original American Perspectives exhibition), November 2002 – January 2003

This print:

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), p. 35

Selections 2 (Verlag Photographie, 1984), unpaginated

Variant:

Aperture 96, Fall 1984, p. 51

Samaras: The Photographs of Lucas Samaras (New York, 1987), p. 145

Marla Prather, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003), p. 253

Although this mural-sized Polaroid print has not been examined out of its frame, it appears to be in generally excellent condition. The colors are rich and saturated, with no apparent fading. There is a slight waviness to the print, likely as a result of its size.
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