2012.204.5: 29, rue d'Astorg
PrintsThe black and white print shows a female figure seated on a backless bench before a long-arched hallway. The figure is wearing a dress which hangs off her left shoulder. Her feet do not touch the floor, her head is a square topped peg shape. On the right is a distorted view of a hallway with an arched ceiling. To the left is a view of a room with an arched doorway.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2012.204.5
- People
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Dora Maar, French (Tours, France 1907 - 1997 Paris, France)
- Title
- 29, rue d'Astorg
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- postcard, print
- Date
- 1937
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342731
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Photo offset lithograph
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 14.1 cm (3 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Jack Banning, New York, [Christie's East], sold: to Rick Wester, Dobbs Ferry, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin
- Accession Year
- 2012
- Object Number
- 2012.204.5
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/29/2015 - 10/14/2015
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Verification Level
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