Heads

Two groups of head images from 1985/86 and 1987/88 certainly belong to the most exhibited works by Roger Lips. In a diary entry concerning this early series, he remarked that – after some initial hesitation – most of those portrayed here recognized themselves in the pictures.

At this point Lips also calls the works “portraits.” However even Misselbeck points out that these pictures are more “characteristic” than “personal.” Later Lips himself talks about the “heads.”


SB 019 SB 009 SB 012 SB 013 SB 011
SB 008 SB 010 SB 014 SB 015 SB 016

All without titles, 1985/1986


Some of them are more related with the work in 1988 which emphasized the experiment, and of course the last great project from Lips, the “baby heads” must be mentioned here in this connection.

By clicking on the pictures you can get large-scale reproductions with a bit of further information. The numbers are the numbers in the Catalogue of Artwork. You can scroll back and forth when you are at the large reproductions level.



88_046 88_047 86_051 87_054
SB 046 SB 047 SB 051 SB 054
88_053 88_048 88_049 88_050 88_052
SB 053 SB 048 SB 049 SB 050 SB 052

All without titles, 1987/1988






85_001 85_002 85_003 85_004
SB 001 SB 002 SB 003 SB 004
85_094 85_006 85_017 86_007
SB 094 SB 006 SB 017 SB 007

All without titles, 1985/1986

These pictures were not shown together in any kind of order, but rather as pairs, in combination with other pictures, for example from the project group “Scenes” or also as an individual picture.







88_076 88_077 88_078 88_079 88_080
SB 076 SB 077 SB 078 SB 079 SB 080

All without titles, 1988




88_081 88_082 88_059
SB 081 SB 082 SB 059

alAll without titles, 1988
88_056 88_057 88_058
SB 056 SB 057 SB 058

oWithout title, Tryptique (Triptych), Without title, all 1988





93_113 93_114 93_115 93_116 93_117 93_118 93_119 93_120 93_121 93_122
SB 113 SB 114 SB 115 SB 116 SB 117 SB 118 SB 119 SB 120 SB 121 SB 122
93_123 93_124 93_125 93_126 93_127 93_128 93_129 93_130 93_131 93_132
SB 123 SB 124 SB 125 SB 126 SB 127 SB 128 SB 129 SB 130 SB 131 SB 132

All without titles (Noah), 1993