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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1988.438
People
Al Hirschfeld, American (St. Louis, MO 1903 - 2003 New York, NY)
Title
Italian-British Negotiations May Prepare Ground for World Peace
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1938
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on illustration board
Dimensions
image: 41.2 x 30.4 cm (16 1/4 x 11 15/16 in.)
actual: 49 x 40.1 cm (19 5/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Hirschfeld
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite: Italian-British Negotiations May Prepare Ground for World Peace-- News Item
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: [encircled:] 637
  • inscription: center right, graphite, erased: [ ] / Block

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Al Hirschfeld, New York, New York; through [Margo Feiden Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to [Seiden and de Cuevas Inc.],1981, sold; to Harvard Theatre Collection, Cambridge Massachusetts, transfer; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1988.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Collection
Accession Year
1988
Object Number
1988.438
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Frederic Woodbridge Wilson, A Love Affair with Line: Drawings by Al Hirschfeld, brochure, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY, 2002), cat. no. 3

Exhibition History

  • Collecting for Harvard: Works Acquired through the Generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/03/1993 - 08/15/1993
  • A Love Affair with Line: Drawings by Al Hirschfeld, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 06/06/2002 - 09/08/2002

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