About the Artwork
The Rag Picker
1933
Kurt Seligmann (Artist) Swiss, 1900-1962 Kurt Seligmann (Printer) Swiss, 1900-1962
Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 13 5/8 × 10 3/16 inches (34.6 × 25.9 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 7/8 inches (49.5 × 37.8 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
1997.52
© 2005 Orange County Citizens Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: K. Seligman 33
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: Ière épreuve | Le chiffonnier Inscribed, lower left margin: Vagabondages Heraldiques - Le Chiffonier
Watermark, lower left: BFK
Provenance
(Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings LLC, Portland, Connecticut, USA)
1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© 2005 Orange County Citizens Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Kurt Seligmann, The Rag Picker, 1933, etching and aquatint printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 1997.52.
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