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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.290
People
Nicolas de Staël, French (St. Petersburg 1914 - 1955 Antibes)
Title
Abstraction
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1942
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299034

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., graphite: Staël 1942

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, sold to Lois Orswell.
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, CT, Purchased from Knoedler Galleries, 1956, Bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. Orswell placed work on long-term loan from 1970 to 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© Nicolas de Staël / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.290
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 267, pp. 358, 371, 376

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