1968
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1968 ink by Roland Penrose, depicting Glove, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a small, jagged piece of paper with a photo of a bush glued to it, held up by a hand cut from another photo. This was part of a 1968 art portfolio called *S.M.S.*—short for "Shit Must Stop." Artists mailed each other weird, cheap, playful works. Penrose’s piece feels like a quick joke: nature held in a human grip. If you like this kind of playful collage, look up the technique lithography.
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern art and an associate of the surrealists in the United Kingdom. During the Second World War he put…
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