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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.208
People
Gustav Seitz, German (Neckarau, near Mannheim, Germany 1906 - 1969 Hamburg, Germany)
Title
Head of Villon (front view)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Villon - Kopf de face
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220975

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red inks on newsprint
Dimensions
irregular: 45.5 x 38 cm (17 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
mount: 80.1 x 59.7 cm (31 9/16 x 23 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at c.l.: Seitz
  • label: Removed during reframing: GUSTAV SEITZ / "Villon-kopf en face", 1949 / Tuschpinsel über Tusche auf / Zeitung / 45,5 x 38 cm; verso: Die Art / Art Cologne 25 Internationaler Kinstmarkt 14-20 November 91

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Schüler 3324 (426/7)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Gustav Seitz Foundation through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.208
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
mounted directly to matboard

Publication History

  • Gerhard Schüler, Gustav Seitz. Die Zeichnungen aus dem Besitz öffentlicher Sammlungen und der Gustav Seitz Stiftung Hamburg, ed. Gustav-Seitz-Stiftung, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co. (Stuttgart, Germany, 1992), p. 328, cat. no. 3324 (426/7), b/w ill.
  • Erika Gemar Költzsch, German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), pp. 178-179, cat. no. 141, b/w ill., p. 39, col. ill.

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