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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.128
People
Jean Lurçat, French (1892 - 1966)
Title
Delphi
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1928
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226623

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88.9 x 116.21 cm (35 x 45 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lr: Lurçat 28

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Étienne Bignou Gallery, Paris], sold; to Joseph Winterbotham, 1928 or 1929, gift; to Art Institute of Chicago, to; [Parke Bernet Gallery, 1971], sold; to John and Alice Steiner, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1996.

NOTE: Provenance from the AIC and the curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Alice Steiner
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.128
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Daniel Catton Rich, "Five Contemporary Paintings", Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago (1930), vol. 24, pp. 3 (ill.), 5
  • Charles Kunstler, "Le Motif Antique Dans la Peinture Moderne", Art et Decoration (1931), vol. 59, p. 132
  • H. Heilmaier, "Neues ueber Jean Lurcat", Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (1931), vol. 68, pp. 156-157
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1933), catalogue no. 782
  • The Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1947), pp. 26-27
  • The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1986), pp. 10, 58
  • Shaw Pettus, "The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1994), vol. 20, no. 2, p. 184

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 07/01/1930 - 08/31/1930
  • A Century of Progress Art Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 06/01/1933 - 11/01/1933
  • Contemporary Movements in European Painting, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 11/01/1938 - 12/31/1938

Verification Level

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