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Nick Cave, Hair Brush, 1999

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A four-inch-wide paintbrush with long brown hair instead of stiff bristles is hung upside down from a black wooden handle.
Nick Cave, American, b. 1959
Hair Brush, 1999
Wood, metal, and hair
18 × 5 ¼ × 1 in. (45.7 × 13.3 × 2.54 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of John and Dorianne Venator, 2010.30
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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