A wall-spanning collage created by Diane Keaton is on view at Bonhams in West Hollywood before traveling to New York. The collage includes Parisian photo booth snapshots, a fake ear marked with acupuncture points, mugshots of Victorian women, bingo cards, a menu from a defunct California gambling den, and a photograph of her friend Carol Kane taken over decades. The piece represents only a portion of a much larger 8x30ft collage kept in her Sullivan Canyon home. Bonhams specialists also found signed photos of Al Pacino tucked beneath the assemblage. Keaton began making collages early, learned from her mother, and described herself as someone who simply cuts and pins paper rather than an artist, yet the work functions as an artful catalogue of her life.
"A sprawling collage created by Diane Keaton. The late actor pinned objects of fascination to this collage including snaps of herself in Parisian photo booths, a fake ear with acupuncture points, mugshots of Victorian women, bingo cards, a menu from a defunct California gambling den and a photograph she took of her friend Carol Kane over many decades."
"this sizable piece, covering nearly an entire wall, constitutes a mere slice of the 8x30ft collage Keaton kept inside her Sullivan Canyon home. Bonhams specialists found even more ephemera, such as signed photos of her The Godfather co-star Al Pacino, tucked underneath this towering assemblage."
"Keaton, who grew up watching her mother make collages, took to the craft early. In her 20s, when Keaton was acting in Broadway stage productions including Hair, she would spend contemplative evenings piecing together collaged works."
"Keaton never considered her habit an art form; she once described herself as a person who cuts out paper, throws it up on the wall or finds old photographs that I see at the swap meet rather than an artist. The absorbing collage at Bonhams suggests otherwise."
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