About the Artwork
Head of a Negro
1932
Elias M. Grossman
1898-1947
American
Unknown
Drypoint printed in brown ink on wove paper
Plate: 12 × 9 inches (30.5 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 14 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (36.2 × 28.3 cm)
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Gift of Charles E. Feinberg
49.272
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Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: Elias M. Grossman | 1932
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Watermark: [fragment, lower right edge]
Provenance
1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Elias M. Grossman, Head of a Negro, 1932, drypoint printed in brown ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Charles E. Feinberg, 49.272.
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