Alfonso Ossorio Empty Chair or The Last Colonial 1969
- MoMA, Floor 4, 415 The David Geffen Galleries
- Medium
- Glass and plastic marbles, West African wood figures, tree fragments, pebbles, geode, iron nails, coral, seashells, wood shoe trees, lobster claws, sword, painted human foot bones and vertebra, faux pearls, plastic and wooden letters, plastic sheets and scraps, wood scraps, painted wood, animal claws and bones, domino, glass eyes, bell, and other materials on plastic sheets mounted on wood
- Dimensions
- 46 3/8 x 39 1/4 x 15 7/8" (117.7 x 99.7 x 40.3 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of the artist
- Object number
- 688.1971
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Alfonso Ossorio has 6 works online.
- There are 2,456 paintings online.
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