A black and white print in the form of a postcard.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white print shows a bed with lace-trimmed hangings and a partially covered figure on the right side. A hand reaches towards it from the bottom right. In the upper left a star shaped object with black points banded in white is below a black object with two rounds one atop the other and another to the left. A long white feather is on the upper left side, a hand reaches out from the left to cover part of it. Scraps of paper with handwriting in French are in the upper right, the left middle and the lower left corner.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.204.13
People
Georges Hugnet, French (1906 - 1974)
Title
Au pied de la Lettre/Word for word
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, postcard
Date
1937
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/342739

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
2012.204.13
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/18/2018 - 10/17/2019

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