Portrait of a man, clad in a white shirt, looking over his right shoulder and drawing.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Portrait of a man with cropped hair and wide eyes looking over his right shoulder at the viewer. His collared shirt is a stark white, contrasting greatly against the rest of the drawing. Two easels, both lacking a canvas, sit to the left of the man. A curtain slightly billows out from a sunlit, bright window. The man holds a dark writing utensil (possibly charcoal or graphite) in his left hand which sits atop a paper that appears to be partially sketched upon.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.325
People
Paul Citroen, Dutch (Berlin, Germany 1896 - 1983 Wassenaar, The Netherlands)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1930
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220920

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on card, black crayon and graphite on card, cut out and adhered
Dimensions
42.8 x 33.3 cm (16 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.l.: 1930 / Paul Citroen
  • inscription: on mat, l.r., graphite, signed, in artist's hand: P. Citroen [second signature]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
© Paul Citroen/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/Pictoright, Amsterdam
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.325
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 148

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000

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