The Cello

Modern Art

1930

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Louis Marcoussis
Title: The Cello
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.: 1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "LMarcoussis 30"
Dimensions: 38.1 × 55.2 cm (15 × 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mima de Manziarly Porter
Reference Number: 1989.51.4
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Sold through Valentine Gallery, New York, to Mima de Manziarly Porter, Chicago and New York, Apr. 1, 1931 [Porter Estate document, c. 1938–1949, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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