M23982: Perseus Beheading Medusa V
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M23982
- People
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André Racz, American (Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1916 - 1994 Engelwood, New Jersey)
- Title
- Perseus Beheading Medusa V
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- 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
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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
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- 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.
- Copyright
- © 1945 Estate of Andre Racz
- Accession Year
- 1998
- Object Number
- M23982
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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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