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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.38
People
Alfonso Ossorio, American (Manila, The Philippines 1916 - 1990 East Hampton, NY)
Title
Somatide
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1990
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/95457

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink, fiber-tip ink, synthetic paint, wax and pastel (?) on white paperboard
Technique
Wax resist
Dimensions
101.7 x 76.2 cm (40 1/16 x 30 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower center, black felt-tip ink: '90 AO [monogram]
  • label: back of frame, paper and black ink, inscribed: T.S. Eliot. Burnt North. lines 66-67 / Except for the point, the still point, / There would be no dance. / And there is only the dance [in Frederic Ossorio's hand]
  • gallery label: back of frame, paper and black ink, printed: Gilding & Custom Frames / Canvasback Gallery / 280 2nd Avenue P.O. Box 1102 / Niwot, Colorado 80544 303-652-2404

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Frederic E. Ossorio, Boulder, Colorado, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Frederic and Siena Ossorio
Copyright
© Robert U. Ossorio Foundation
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.38
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Alfonso Ossorio Horror Vacui: Filling the Void--A Fifty Year Survey, exh. cat., Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York, NY, 2002), p. 11, color repr. p. 67, p. 68-69 (color detail)
  • Scott Homolka, "Horror Vacui and the Process of Expression: A Technical Explanation of Drawings by Alfonso Ossorio" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2004), Unpublished, pp. 1-19 passim

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