Portrait of André Breton | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1986.662
People: Robert Delaunay, French (1885 - 1941)
Title: Portrait of André Breton
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1922
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/294693

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black crayon on tracing paper
Dimensions: 94 x 62.8 cm (37 x 24 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Sonia Delaunay, Paris, sold; to [Galerie Georges Bernier, Paris, 1974], sold; to Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1974, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Accession Year: 1986
Object Number: 1986.662
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Simonetta Fraquelli, Robert Delaunay and the City of Lights, exh. cat., Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich and Berlin, 2018), pp. 97, 168, cat. no. 41, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Robert Delaunay and The City of Lights, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 08/31/2018 - 11/18/2018

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1986.662: Portrait of André Breton