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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.19
People
Fernando Zóbel, Spanish (Manila, Philippines 1924 - 1984 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Dream of the Damsel
Other Titles
Original Language Title: El sueno de la doncella
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1967
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228139

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
78.7 × 78.7 cm (31 × 31 in.)
framed: 81.9 × 81.9 × 5.1 cm (32 1/4 × 32 1/4 × 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On back: Zobel/ 9 de Nov., Signed Date: 1967
  • label: in mylar envelope adhered to backing board: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / Zobel / 18 febrero - 5 mayo 2003 / 56/049 / Zobel, Fernando / El sueno de la doncella (The dream of the Damsel)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1968.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Paul J. Haldeman
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.19
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1968, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1969), p. 217 (b/w)
  • Peter Soriano, Creative transformations: drawings and paintings by Fernando Zóbel, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1987)
  • Felipe Pereda and Manuel Fontan del Junco, ed., Zobel: The Future of the Past, exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, 2022), p. 124, fig. 54, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Zóbel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 02/18/2003 - 05/05/2003
  • The Future of the Past. Fernando Zobel and the History of Art, Museo Nacional del Prado, 11/15/2022 - 03/05/2023; Ayala Museum, Makati City, 09/09/2024 - 01/26/2025

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