First Voyage: Sinbad and the Whale

1923

Jose Maria Sert y Badia Spanish, 1876-1945

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Title First Voyage: Sinbad and the Whale

Artwork Date 1923

Artist Jose Maria Sert y Badia

Life Dates 1876-1945

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil and gold leaf on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 16 feet 5 inches × 137 1/2 inches (5 m 0.4 cm × 3 m 49.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of Anna Thomson Dodge

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 57.75.2

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Signed Signed and dated: M Sert 1923

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J. M. Cosden (Palm Beach, Florida, USA)

by 1957, Anna Thomson Dodge (Palm Beach, Florida and Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1957-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Renaissance de l'art Francais, vol. 7. 1924, p. 60.

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Jose Maria Sert y Badia, First Voyage: Sinbad and the Whale, 1923, oil and gold leaf on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anna Thomson Dodge, 57.75.2.

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