1936.150.746: Portrait of a Seated Young Man with Mirror

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.150.746

People

Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH)

Title

Portrait of a Seated Young Man with Mirror

Other Titles

Former Title: Seated Youth

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1932

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230838

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions

53.7 x 38.4 cm (21 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: Hyman Bloom 1932
• inscription: on back of canvas, in artist's hand: RO - GB/Venetian R - G. B. Mix [in Bloom's hand?]; HDk Aliz R.-Cad R/or/M Aliz R.-O Verm/Veridian/Fr. Ultra Dk [in DWR's hand]; Hyman/ Bloom [in Bloom's hand]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Hyman Bloom, gift(?); to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875

Copyright

© Hyman Bloom Estate

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.150.746

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Judith A. Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England (Durham, NH/Hanover, NH and London, 2005), p. 83, fig. 2.8

Exhibition History

• Four Boston Masters, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 04/10/1959 - 05/11/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1959 - 06/26/1959

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