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Skeleton

A work made of graphite and black and colored conté crayons, with touches of colored wax crayons, smudging, and erasing, on pieced salmon laid paper, prepared with a white ground.

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  • A work made of graphite and black and colored conté crayons, with touches of colored wax crayons, smudging, and erasing, on pieced salmon laid paper, prepared with a white ground.

Date:

1985–1986

Artist:

Horst Janssen
German, 1929-1995

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Horst Janssen

Title

Skeleton

Place

Germany (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.

1985–1986

Medium

Graphite and black and colored Conté crayons, with touches of colored wax crayons, smudging, and erasing, on pieced salmon laid paper, prepared with a white ground

Dimensions

68.2 × 89.7 cm (26 7/8 × 35 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Eva Maria Worthington

Reference Number

1994.273

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