1990.40: Study for a Figure in Bronze

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1990.40

People

Eduardo Paolozzi, British (Leith, Scotland 1924 - 2005 London, England)

Title

Study for a Figure in Bronze

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1956

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294873

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and blue-gray ink, gray-brown wash, purple, yellow, and green pastel, and white gouache on cream wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 34.6 x 25.1 cm (13 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, lower middle: E PAOLOZZI. 1956

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Eduardo Paolozzi; to Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (studio exhibition and sale), sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1959, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell

Copyright

© Eduardo Paolozzi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1990

Object Number

1990.40

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 184, pp. 371, 378

Exhibition History

• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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