The Dancers

Artist Nicholas "Nick" Bubash (American, 1949 - 2021)

Publisher The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date1999

MediumLithograph on Somerset antique paper

DimensionsImage: 21 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (55.25 × 41.91 cm)
Sheet: 24 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches (62.87 × 46.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger

Object number2023.40.2

Edition/State/Proof20/30

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DescriptionImage in blue, red, black, brown, and yellow. The right half is taken up by a fox dressed as a clown in red and blue pants with yellow striped suspenders and a blue ruff. He holds a brimmed hat with a creased crown and yellow streamer in his proper left paw. He dances nimbly on bare hairy paws, a red bushy tail spreading beneath his feet. He has clown makeup on his face and holds a red ball in his proper right paw. Next to him on his left is another animal clown dressed in a blue costume with a yellow ruff, with a curly golden-brown tail. This clown holds aloft in his proper right hand a wand topped by a red neck enclosed in a blue patterned box and a red face in profile. The face wears a crown with yellow points. Behind the clowns, a blue spiral spouting red flame. On the left of the image, a broken ladder over a ceramic jar and a ceramic bowl. In the background, concentric blue circles on the left and a sunburst on the right.Provenance

Provenance

C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

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