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The Horse

A work made of watercolor and graphite, with blue gouache on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A work made of watercolor and graphite, with blue gouache on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.

Date:

c. 1921

Artist:

Jacques Gaston Duchamp Villon
French, 1875-1963

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jacques Villon

Title

The Horse

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.

1911–1963

Medium

Watercolor and graphite, with blue gouache on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed lower left of primary support, in graphite: "Jacques Villon"

Dimensions

Primary support: 10.4 × 26.5 cm (4 1/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 11.7 × 27.5 cm (4 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.); Tertiary support: 37 × 52 cm (14 5/8 × 20 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank B. Hubachek

Reference Number

1955.829

Copyright

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

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