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The Spectacles of Life

A work made of watercolor and pen and black ink, with touches of graphite, varnished overall, on vellum, laid down on off-white wove paper.

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  • A work made of watercolor and pen and black ink, with touches of graphite, varnished overall, on vellum, laid down on off-white wove paper.

Date:

1905/1930

Artist:

Jules Pascin
American, born Bulgaria, 1885-1930

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jules Pascin

Title

The Spectacles of Life

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1905–1930

Medium

Watercolor and pen and black ink, with touches of graphite, varnished overall, on vellum, laid down on off-white wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed on mount, lower left, in graphite: "Pascin"; inscribed lower edge, below image, in pen and black ink: "les spectacles de la vie"

Dimensions

Primary support: 15.6 × 27.4 cm (6 3/16 × 10 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 24.9 × 36.1 cm (9 13/16 × 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Tiffany Blake Fund

Reference Number

1945.29

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