The Glass of Absinthe

Modern Art

1912

Louis Casimir Ladislas Marcoussis
French, born Poland, 1878-1941

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Artist: Louis Casimir Ladislas Marcoussis
Title: The Glass of Absinthe
Origin: France
Date: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.; "LM"
Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 13 in. (24.1 × 33 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter
Reference Number: 1978.402
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Jean Lafrachis, Marcoussis (Paris, 1961), p. 242, no. 24.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 53, no. 2F1.

Berlin, Der Sturm, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, 1913, no. 278.
Berlin, Der Sturm, Gleizes, J. Villon, J. Evola, Toni Donas, Sonia Delaunay, 1921.
San Francisco, Museum of Art, September 1941.

Herwarth Walden, Berlin, by 1913 [verso label and Berlin 1913]. Kate Steinitz, Los Angeles, by 1941 [verso label]. Maxine Kunstadter, Chicago. Bequeathed by her to the Art Institute, 1978.

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