Dead Man
Bronze relief
1965
Baskin did his first series of dead figures between
1952 and 1956, a subject he returned to throughout
his life and culminating in the monumental Unnoticed
Dead of 1982. The works ranged from six inches
long in his Hanged Man, to his monolithic
70” Great Stone Dead Man. He said,”
I think of them as gisants, modern counterparts of
the great ecclesiastical effigy figures placed on
tombs in medieval European cathedrals.”
