About the Artwork
Sails
1921
Jean Lurçat
1892-1966
French
Unknown
Gouache on paper fully mounted to a heavy, cream wove sheet of paper
Sheet: 11 × 18 1/2 inches (27.9 × 47 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
50.143
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, along lower left edge of sheet: Lurcat 21
Inscribed, in pencil, verso of mount, upper left corner: 5054
Provenance
(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA)
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1950-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Exhibition of Five Centuries of Marine Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1942, no. 133.
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Jean Lurçat, Sails, 1921, gouache on paper fully mounted to a heavy, cream wove sheet of paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 50.143.
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