Still Life

Prints and Drawings

c. 1917

Louis Marcoussis
French, born Poland, 1878-1941

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Louis Marcoussis
Title: Still Life
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.: 1912–1922
Medium: Oil paint, with graphite on cream wove paper, edge mounted with brown paper strips to canvas, stretched on a wooden stretcher
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper right corner, in graphite: "Marcoussis"
Dimensions: Paper: 29.7 × 53.2 cm (11 3/4 × 21 in.); Stretcher: 30.5 × 54 × 0.3 cm (12 1/16 × 21 5/16 × 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1996.629
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. 46.
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. 44 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23–April 14, 1985, pp. 20 and 111, cat. 99, fig. 7.
New York, The Jewish Museum, “The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris 1905–1945,” 1985, p. 123, cat. 69.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Way of Life Surrealism and the Joseph and Margaret Shapiro Collection,” December 6, 1997–March 8, 1998, no cat.

The Leicester Galleries, London. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Glencoe, Ill., by 1982 [Chicago 1982]; given to the Art Institute, 1996.

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