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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.20
People
Carmen Louis Cicero, American (Newark, New Jersey born 1926)
Title
The Kiss
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308823

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on heavy white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 26.1 x 34.1 cm (10 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: Cicero 1963
  • drawing: verso, black ink, in artist's hand: Wobbly oval drawn
  • gallery label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper: No. 2752

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Peridot Gallery, New York, New York], sold to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1963, gift; to Harvard University Art Museum, 1967.

NOTE: Peridot Gallery information provided by John Hohnsbeen, formerly of the Peridot Gallery during a visit in October 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Copyright
© Carmen Cicero
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.20
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. 21, pp. 306, 371, 379

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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