1998.270: The Card Players

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1998.270

People

Roger de La Fresnaye, French (Le Mans, France 1885 - 1925 Grasse, France)

Title

The Card Players

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Les Joueurs de Cartes

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1918

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312364

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on cream wove paper

Dimensions

19.7 x 26.7 cm (7 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Jacques Seligmann Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1947, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

1998.270

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 92, fig. 19 (color), pp. 47, 371, 374, 380, 381

Exhibition History

• 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
• 20th Century Art in New England, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/06/1948 - 06/30/1948
• Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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