Related to Pen VIII

Prints and Drawings

April, 30, 1939

Julio Gonzalez
Spanish, 1876-1942

This sketch for one of the artist’s iron-welded forms conveys Gonzalez’s increasing fear and anxiety in response to the Spanish Civil War, a concern he shared with his countrymen Picasso and Miró, both of whom devoted much of their art in the 1930s to the subject.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Julio González
Title: Related to Pen VIII
Place: Spain (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.: 1939
Medium: Pen and black ink and white chalk, over graphite, on buff wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right: "J. G. 30-4-39"
Dimensions: 30.8 × 20.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.945
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

New York, Kleemann Galleries, “Julio Gonzalez,” Mar.-Apr. 1956, cat. 23 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Kleemann Galleries, New York, by 1956. Sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 18, 1961, lot 10, to a private collector; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 7, 2008, lot 143, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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