Mark Kostabi
Nose Off--Self Portrait, 1980
Pastel on paper
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Vogel 2009.01.24

Item description: Line drawing of a male figure with an open pair of red scissors resting over his protruding nose. The scissors are neatly tied to a piece of red string dangling from the crooked finger that he holds above his head. He has one blue eye and one black eye.