- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.271
- People
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Joseph Stella, American (Muro Lurcano Italy 1877 - 1946 Astoria NY)
- Title
- Flower Bud
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 20th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/330694
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Colored pencil and metalpoint with incised lines on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- sight: 56.8 x 70.5 cm (22 3/8 x 27 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., graphite: Joseph Stella
- inscription: upper right, graphite (upside down): 69 x 81 [crossed out] 76 x 64 57 [encircled]
- label: 12-SEP-06 / Sale 1699 / Tortoise / Lot 157 / Christie's
- Provenance
- Mrs. Giovanni Stella, sister-in-law of the artist; private collection; Christie's, March 12, 1992, lot 226 [also appeared in Christie's, New York, May 19, 2005, lot 198, and Christie's, New York, September 12, 2006, lot 157--both times bought in]. Private collector, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2008
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of an Anonymous donor
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.271
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Thea Burns, The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint, Archetype Publications (London, 2012), p. 166, fig. 74
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