About the Artwork
The House of Symbol
1952
Phillip Martin
born 1927
English
Unknown
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Overall: 40 × 46 inches (101.6 × 116.8 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund
54.193
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Markings
Signed, lower right: Martin 52
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Provenance
(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Friends of Modern Art Exhibition. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 20-May 16, 1954.
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Phillip Martin, The House of Symbol, 1952, oil on paper, mounted on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 54.193.
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