The Man

Prints and Drawings

1920

Louis Marcoussis
French, born Poland, 1878-1941

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Artist: Louis Marcoussis
Title: The Man
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1920
Medium: Graphite, with smudging, brown crayon and brush and black ink on ivory wove paper, laid down on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "1920/Marcoussis"
Dimensions: Primary support: 28.1 × 18.1 cm (11 1/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 33.8 × 24.4 cm (13 5/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Donn Shapiro
Reference Number: 1985.978
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” December 20, 1969–February 1, 1970, n.p., cat. 109.
Chicago, Spertus Museum of Judaica, “The French Connection: Jewish Artists in the School of Paris 1900–1940, Works in Chicago Collections,” October 24–December 31, 1982, n.p., cat. 45 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23–April 14, 1985, pp. 83 and 111, cat. 100, fig. 77.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Century Collection Reinstalled, June 7, 1991–February 28, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mrs. and Mrs, Joseph Randall Shapiro,” December 15, 1992–April 18, 1993, p. 4, fig. 1.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Glencoe, Ill., by 1969 [Chicago 1969]; given to the Art Institute, 1985.

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