BR59.120: Sunken City, from the portfolio "Dream Land I"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR59.120

People

Alfred Kubin, Austrian (Leitmeritz, Bohemia, Austria 1877 - 1959 Zwickledt, near Wernstein am Inn, Austria)

Title

Sunken City, from the portfolio "Dream Land I"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Versunkene Stadt, aus "Traumland I"
Series/Book Title: Traumland I

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1922

Culture

Austrian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/222792

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lithograph printed in black ink on cream wove paper mounted to blue wove paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

image: 26.9 x 32.2 cm (10 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
mount: 34 x 45 cm (13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in stone at l.r.: AKubin; in graphite at l.r.: Kubin
• inscription: in stone, l.c., German, in artist's hand: versunkene Stadt ["sunken city"]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Raabe 168; Hoberg Mappe V/I/6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow in memory of Louis W. Black

Copyright

© Alfred Kubin Stiftung / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1959

Object Number

BR59.120

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Franz Marc and the Blue Rider, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 04/08/2001 - 07/15/2001

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