2012.204.19: A l'échelle du désir/The scale of desire
PrintsThe black and white print shows a circular staircase on a round base. The stairs begin on the right side, on the base and on four of the steps are three-toed footprints. At the top of the stairs is a white vertical object standing on a point. It has a round center and a slight outward curve on the right side and ends in an elongated point.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2012.204.19
- People
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Wolfgang Paalen, Austrian (Vienna, Austria 1905 or 1907 - 1959 Mexico City, Mexico)
- Title
- A l'échelle du désir/The scale of desire
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- print, postcard
- Date
- 1937
- Culture
- Austrian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342745
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Photo offset lithograph
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 14.1 cm (3 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Jack Banning, New York, [Christie's East], sold: to Rick Wester, Dobbs Ferry, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin
- Accession Year
- 2012
- Object Number
- 2012.204.19
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/18/2018 - 10/17/2019
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Verification Level
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