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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.23
People
Asaph Ben-Menahem, Israeli (born 1940)
Title
Drawing for woodcut, Death of King Saul
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1999
Culture
Israeli
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/147714

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Two colors of black ink on a page from a Dutch book
Dimensions
image with border: 14.1 x 13.4 cm (5 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: asaph ben menahem
  • inscription: yes, lower margin, graphite, hand written, English and Hebrew, signed, in artist's hand: signature in English and Hebrew, date: asaph ben menahem [English] / asaph ben menahem [Hebrew] / 99 - j [the second 9 corrected in blue ballpoint ink to 5] • Jan 99
  • inscription: lower margin, blue ballpoint ink, hand written, Hebrew, in artist's hand: later notation: preparation for woodcut executed/carried out [translation by Marsha Pomerantz]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Monroe E. Price and Aimée Brown Price, New York, New York, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Monroe E. Price and Aimée Brown Price
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.23
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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