Abstraction | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1998.290
People: Nicolas de Staël, French (St. Petersburg 1914 - 1955 Antibes)
Title: Abstraction
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1942
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299034

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions

54 x 73 cm (21 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.l., graphite: Staël 1942

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956, sold to Lois Orswell.
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, CT, Purchased from Knoedler Galleries, 1956, Bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. Orswell placed work on long-term loan from 1970 to 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year: 1998
Object Number: 1998.290
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 267, pp. 358, 371, 376

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