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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.662
People
Robert Delaunay, French (1885 - 1941)
Title
Portrait of André Breton
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1922
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294693

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon on tracing paper
Dimensions
94 x 62.8 cm (37 x 24 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sonia Delaunay, Paris, sold; to [Galerie Georges Bernier, Paris, 1974], sold; to Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1974, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.662
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Simonetta Fraquelli, Robert Delaunay and the City of Lights, exh. cat., Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich and Berlin, 2018), pp. 97, 168, cat. no. 41, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Robert Delaunay and The City of Lights, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 08/31/2018 - 11/18/2018

Verification Level

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