The Creation of the World

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jacques Villon

Title

The Creation of the World

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.

1945

Medium

Pen and black ink and white and gray gouache, with touches of graphite on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on white wove paper, laid down on cream board

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Jacques Villon"; inscribed lower right, in graphite: "la creation du monde/1945"

Dimensions

Primary support: 41.5 × 30.5 cm (16 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 42 × 31 cm (16 9/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Tertiary support: 48.4 × 36.4 cm (19 1/16 × 14 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Frank B. Hubachek

Reference Number

1967.36

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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