1959.166: Nicolas Kopeikine
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1959.166
- People
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Pavel Tchelitchew, American (Kaluga district, Russia 1898 - 1957 Grotta Ferrata, Italy)
- Title
- Nicolas Kopeikine
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1937
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/308521
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silverpoint and graphite on white prepared paper
- Dimensions
- 50.9 x 33 cm (20 1/16 x 13 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: silverpoint, lower center: P. Tchelitchew '37
- inscription: l.l., graphite: [underlined} 300
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Durlacher Brothers, New York, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1943, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1959.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- 1959.166
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sheet is ragged at right edge as if torn from a larger sheet?
Publication History
- Monroe Wheeler, ed., Modern Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1944), p. 98; repr. p. 85
- Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 202
- James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pp. 8 and 10; repr. p. 9
- Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 72, repr.
- Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Drawing with Pencils, History and Modern Techniques, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. (New York, NY, 1970), repr. p. 10
- Lincoln Kirstein, Pavel Tchelitchew Drawings, Hacker Art Books (New York, NY, 1970), no. 32, repr.
- Douglas Dreishpoon, "The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver", Arts Magazine (September 1985)
- Bruce Weber, The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, exh. cat., R. W. Norton Gallery (West Palm Beach, FL, 1985), no. 74, p. 101, repr.
- Bruce Weber, "Silverpoint Drawing", American Artist (March 1986), vol. L, no. 524, repr. p. 36
Exhibition History
- Modern Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 02/15/1944 - 04/16/1944
- Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
- Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
- The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 12/07/1985 - 01/19/1986
Verification Level
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