Perseus Beheading Medusa V | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M23982
People: André Racz, American (Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1916 - 1994 Engelwood, New Jersey)
Title: Perseus Beheading Medusa V
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1945
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/236244

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Softground etching, engraving, and aquatint with gauffrage on white, wove paper

Technique

Softground etching and aquatint

Dimensions

plate: 54.8 × 37.7 cm (21 9/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
sheet: 62.9 × 45.7 cm (24 3/4 × 18 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: lower margin, graphite: Andre Racz, Signed Date: 1945

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Marjorie B. Cohn, Arlington, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, October 20, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. Cohn in memory of Walter A. Compton, Jr.
Accession Year: 1998
Object Number: M23982
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Stanley William Hayter, New Ways of Gravure, Pantheon Books (New York, NY, 1949), p. 268

Verification Level

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