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Mitchell Funk , Bowery Bum with eyes as blue as robin's eggs, 1970

Mitchell Funk

Bowery Bum with eyes as blue as robin's eggs, 1970
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29 × 43 in / 73.7 × 109.2 cm
$ 3,700.00
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Before the Bowery became a trendy neighborhood, it was New York's most famous skid row. Bums, beggars, hookers and homeless lived and died it's streets, alleys and park benches. Funk's...
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Before the Bowery became a trendy neighborhood, it was New York's most famous skid row. Bums, beggars, hookers and homeless lived and died it's streets, alleys and park benches. Funk's portrait is a psychological study of an alcoholic with eyes as blue as robins's eggs set in a face of despair.
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Exhibitions

Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was first major museum exhibition of color photography, Curated by Henri Ghent )

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