Fantastic Figures

Artist After Frans Verbeeck (Flemish, active 1530 - 1570)

Date1520

MediumGraphite on paper

DimensionsOverall: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.94 × 42.55 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Mission Fund

Object numberF64-11

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Five Centuries of Drawings, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October-November, 1953, no. 3, as by School of Jerome [sic] Bosch, as Sheet of Fantastic Figures.

The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, January 9-February 16, 1958, unnumbered.

Constant Companions: An Exhibition of Mythological Animals, Demons and Monsters, Phantasmal Creatures, and Various Anatomical Assemblages, Art Department of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, October 28, 1964-February 7, 1965, no. 114, as Fantastic Figures.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 4, as Fantastic Figures.

Old Master Drawings: Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1982, no. 16, as by “Artist unknown,” as Fantastic Figures.

Provenance

With Victor David Spark (1898-1991), New York;

Purchased through the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery by Milton (1903-1980) and Barbara (née James, 1905-1996) McGreevy, Shawnee Mission, KS, through the Mission Fund, March 6, 1964;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964;

Published References

Five Centuries of Drawings, exh. cat. (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1953), as by School of Jerome [sic] Bosch, as Sheet of Fantastic Figures.

The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism, exh. cat. (Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1958).

Constant Companions: An Exhibition of Mythological Animals, Demons and Monsters, Phantasmal Creatures, and Various Anatomical Assemblages, exh. cat. (Houston, TX: Art Department of the University of St. Thomas, 1964), unpaginated, as Fantastic Figures.

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 11, 13, (repro.), as Fantastic Figures.

Old Master Drawings: Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as by “Artist unknown,” as Fantastic Figures.

Fritz Koreny, Gabriele Bartz, and Erwin Pokorny, eds. Hieronymus Bosch: Die Zeichnungen: Werkstat und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts, Catalogue raisonné (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2012), 121, (repro.), as Skizzenblatt mit Monstern.

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