Cut paper abstraction
Artist
Francis Bruguière
(American, 1879 - 1945)
Dateca. 1926
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 9/16 × 7 5/8 inches (24.28 × 19.38 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 inches (25.22 × 20.14 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 inches (25.22 × 20.14 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.6
SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in black pen: "Francis Bruguiere"
InscribedInscribed on sheet verso, bottom, in blue pen: "Love and good wishes / to you both / Rosalinde and Bruguière"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "10".
On View
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DescriptionImage composed of cut-paper abstractions photographed in strong, dramatic light which causes the curves of the paper to intertwine with light and shadow.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Purchased from Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY by Emily and Jerry Spiegel, Kings Point, NY, 1981;
Purchased at Emily and Jerry Spiegel's posthumous sale Visionaires: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, Christie's, New York, October 10, 2017, lot 24 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Purchased at Emily and Jerry Spiegel's posthumous sale Visionaires: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, Christie's, New York, October 10, 2017, lot 24 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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