About the Artwork
Devant
1988
Herbert Gentry
1919 - 2003
American
Unknown
Mixed media on white wove paper
Sheet: 21 1/2 × 29 3/4 inches (54.6 × 75.6 cm) Framed: 29 7/8 × 37 7/8 × 1 1/4 inches (75.9 × 96.2 × 3.2 cm)
Drawings
African American Art
Gift of Stanley Bard
2002.204
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Markings
Signed in brush and red pigment, lower left: GENTRY Lower right: GENTRY | 90
Signed and dated in brush and red pigment: GENTRY | 90 Inscribed in pencil, upper left, verso: USHG01-063 Inscribed with title, upper right, verso: "DEVANT" '88
Watermark: BFK RIVES | FRANCE [infinity symbol]
Provenance
2003-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Herbert Gentry, Devant, 1988, mixed media on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Stanley Bard, 2002.204.
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