About This Artwork
Louis Casimir Ladislas Marcoussis
French, born Poland, 1878-1941
The Glass of Absinthe1912
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 13 in. (24.1 x 33 cm)
Signed, l.r.; "LM"
Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter, 1978.402
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Berlin, Der Sturm, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, 1913, no. 278.
Berlin, Der Sturm, Gleizes, J. Villon, J. Evola, Toni Donas, Sonia Delaunay, 1921.
San Francisco, Museum of Art, September 1941.
Publication History
Jean Lafrachis, Marcoussis (Paris, 1961), p. 242, no. 24.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 53, no. 2F1.
Ownership History
Herwarth Walden, Berlin, by 1913 [verso label and Berlin 1913]. Kate Steinitz, Los Angeles, by 1941 [verso label]. Maxine Kunstadter, Chicago. Bequeathed by her to the Art Institute, 1978.