Design for a Radio Orator | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2023.58
People: Gustavs Klucis (Klutsis), Latvian (Koni Parish, Latvia 1895 - 1938 Moscow, Russia)
Title: Design for a Radio Orator
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1922
Culture: Latvian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/379526

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache and ink on paper

Dimensions

29.5 × 21 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., in black ink: G. Klucis

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: The artist, created 1922, by inheritence; to Valentina Kugalina. Gera Kocen, Riga, sold; to Merrill C. Berman, New York (c. 1970s-2023), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2023.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Merrill C. Berman and Dalia S. Berman
Accession Year: 2023
Object Number: 2023.58
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Adrian Sudhalter, Gustav Klutsis: Works from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, The Merrill C. Berman Collection (Rye, New York, 2017), pp. 22-23, ill. (color)

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