DETAILS
- Artist
- Louis Marcoussis
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on white wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image: 49.6 × 68.8 cm (19 9/16 × 27 1/8 in.); Plate: 52 × 70.7 cm (20 1/2 × 27 7/8 in.); Sheet: 63.5 × 90.5 cm (25 × 35 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- France
- Credit line
- Albert H. Wolf Fund
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THE ARTIST
Louis Marcoussis
Louis Marcoussis, a Polish-French avant-garde painter, transitioned from Impressionism to Cubism, and later became a master printmaker, even teaching Joan Miró etching.
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