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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.283
People
Benjamín Palencia, Spanish (Barrax, Albarecete 1894 - 1980 Madrid)
Title
Study of a Cat
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1962
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295451

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black fiber-tip ink with touches of black ink on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 21.2 x 15 cm (8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in black ink: B. Palencia / 1962
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, Spanish: Benjamin PALENCIA (b. 1902) / Purchased from the artist

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Benjamín Palencia, sold; to Fernando Zóbel de Ayala, Madrid, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.283
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
perforated left edge

Exhibition History

  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

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