About This Artwork

Jules Pascin
American, born Bulgaria, 1885-1930

Portait of Professor Adolf Elwyn, 1927/28

Carbon transferred with stylus on ivory laid paper
635 x 480 mm
Given in memory of Mary MacDonald Ludgin, 1963.30R

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 159, pl. LII, as "Seated Man."

Publication History

Yves Hemin, Guy Krohg, Klaus Perls, and Abel Rambert, Pascin: Catalogue Raisonné II (Paris, 1991), pp. 324 and 396, no. 1094 (ill.), as L’artiste américain, 1928.

Ownership History

Estate of Dr. Martin G. Vorhaus, from April 1959 [embossed stamp]. Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.