An abstracted rendering of a group of figures in a room with a window behind them
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Rendered in loosely connected daubs of dark gray ink, and fine black lines, a group of five dark skinned figures are gathered in a living room. At upper center-left, a man in a pinstriped suit and striped tie faces toward us while looking to the right. His arm is around the shoulder of a woman in a dress seated in an armchair at center right. She holds a small child in her lap, and two larger children stand in front of the couple. Some details like faces or eyes are left incompletely rendered, and thin blocks of orange and small incidental lines and marks in black dot the scene.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.33.6.4
People
Louis Delsarte, American (Brooklyn, NY 1944 - 2020 Atlanta, GA)
Title
Unity (mylar/separation)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1995
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361231

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on mylar
Dimensions
58.4 × 78.7 cm (23 × 31 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Louis Delsarte, created 1995; [Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA], gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Copyright
© Estate of Louis Delsarte
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.33.6.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christina Taylor and Georgina Rayner, Multi-layered: Louis Delsarte’s Color Separations, Index Magazine (online), Index Magazine (https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/multi-layered-louis-delsarte-s-color-separations, May 12, 2022)
  • Jennifer Roberts, Contact: The Art and Pull of Print, Princeton University Press (Princeton and Oxford, 2024), p. 89, fig. 3.14, ill. (color)

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