Morgan Monceaux created this mixed media portrait of blues legend B. B. King between 1992 and 1994, using a combination of pastel, fabric, metal, plastic, synthetic fur, wood, adhesive and graphite.
B. B. King
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- Morgan Monceaux, 9 May 1955 - 31 May 2017
- Sitter
- B. B. King, 16 Sep 1925 - 14 May 2015
- Date
- 1992-94
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Medium
- Mixed media: pastel, fabric, metal, plastic, synthetic fur, wood, adhesive and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 108.3 x 77.2 cm (42 5/8 x 30 3/8")
- Type
- Collage
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