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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M23982
People
André Racz, American (Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1916 - 1994 Engelwood, New Jersey)
Title
Perseus Beheading Medusa V
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1945
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/236244

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Softground etching, engraving, and aquatint with gauffrage on white, wove paper
Technique
Softground etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 54.8 × 37.7 cm (21 9/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
sheet: 62.9 × 45.7 cm (24 3/4 × 18 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower margin, graphite: Andre Racz, Signed Date: 1945

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marjorie B. Cohn, Arlington, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, October 20, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. Cohn in memory of Walter A. Compton, Jr.
Copyright
© 1945 Estate of Andre Racz
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
M23982
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stanley William Hayter, New Ways of Gravure, Pantheon Books (New York, NY, 1949), p. 268

Verification Level

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