James Lee Byars
"Self-Portrait", ca. 1959
Painted wood, bread, six parts
65 x 13 x 78 1/2 inches
165 x 33 x 199.5 cm
JB 1/A
"Untitled", 1959-1960
Painted wood
11 x 7 1/2 x 11 inches
28 x 19 x 28 cm
JB 0/Q
"The Angel", 1989
Hand-blown Venetian glass, 125 parts
Diameter each: 7 3/4 inches (20 cm)
JB 118
"Eight Cones", 1959-1960
Japanese paper, varnish
Six parts, each: 6 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches /15 x 4 x 4 cm
Two parts, each: 9 3/4 x 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches / 26 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm
JB 0/M
"Untitled", 1959-1960
Stone
1 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches
4 x 8 x 6.5 cm
JB 0/T
"Untitled (A Face)", ca. 1959
Terracotta
20 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
52.5 x 11 x 11 cm
JB 0/A
"Untitled", 1959-1960
Painted wood and twine, two parts
One:
41 x 5 x 3 1/2 inches
104 x 13 x 9 cm
One:
52 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 3/4 inches
133 x 19.5 x 2 cm
JB 0/S
"Untitled", 1959
Ink on Japanese paper
71 1/4 x 24 1/2 inches
181 x 62 cm
Courtesy Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection
Gift of Philip Johnson, 1969
JB 0/I
"Untitled", 1959
Ink on Japanese paper, in three parts
Each: 12 x 71 1/2 inches
30.5 x 181.5 cm
Courtesy Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection
Gift of Philip Johnson, 1969
JB 0/J
"Untitled", ca. 1965
Japanese paper
Diameter:
319 1/2 inches
811.5 cm
Folded:
2 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
5 x 45 x 45 cm
JB 1/X
"Untitled", 1959-1960
Chalk on Japanese paper
9 1/2 x 1362 inches
24 x 3459.5 cm
Folded:
1 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches
3 x 24 x 13 cm
JB 0/V
"Untitled", 1963
Japanese paper
Folded:
6 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
16 x 34.5 x 9 cm
Courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Gift of the Artist
JB 0/H
"Untitled (Tantric Figure)", 1960
Granite, two parts
8 x 6 x 4 1/2 inches
20.5 x 15 x 11.5 cm
JB 1/H1
"Untitled (Tantric Figure)", 1960
Granite, two parts
14 x 12 x 13 inches
35.5 x 30.5 x 33 cm
JB 1/H
"Autobiography", 1970
16 mm film, transferred to digital
One minute, looped
JB 6/C