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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.279
People
Rico Lebrun, American (Naples, Italy 1900 - 1964 Malibu, CA)
Title
Some can Fly and Some Can't
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1939
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307858

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on gray-green laid paper, set down overall to brown cardboard
Dimensions
mount: 70.6 x 56 cm (27 13/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
actual: 65.8 x 50.8 cm (25 7/8 x 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Lebrun / 1939
  • watermark: [illeg.]
  • inscription: u.l., black ink, in artist's hand: Chi vola / e chi no
  • inscription: lower center, graphite: Some can fly / and some can't
  • inscription: mount, l.r., graphite: 59
  • inscription: mat, graphite: 71
  • label: verso of mount, black ink on paper label: "Some can fly and/ some can not" / Rico Lebrun / Santa Barbara / $150

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Arthur Sachs, Santa Barbara, California, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs, Class of 1901
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.279
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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