1998.289: Composition Drawing
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1998.289
- People
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Nicolas de Staël, French (St. Petersburg 1914 - 1955 Antibes)
- Title
- Composition Drawing
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Dessin Composition
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1952
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/312266
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black fiber-tip ink, faded or discolored, on cream wove paper, verso printed with grid
- Dimensions
- 76 x 56 cm (29 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., fiber-tip ink: Staël
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Knoedler Galleries, New York, New York, sold; to Lois Orswell, 1952, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 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
- 1998.289
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Verso printed with grid: Malby & Sons, Lith., sheet 22 x 30--1000 meter grids--scale 1:25,000 meters
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. 268, pp. 358, 371, 375, 381
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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