About the Artwork
Self-Portrait
ca. 1903
Leon Spilliaert
1881-1946
Belgian
Unknown
Brush and black ink and pastel on cream wove paper
Framed (mat window): 15 × 15 1/4 inches (38.1 × 38.7 cm) Framed (inner frame): 21 5/8 × 21 1/4 inches (54.9 × 54 cm) Framed (outer frame): 29 1/4 × 29 1/8 inches (74.3 × 74 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, General Art Purchase Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund
1989.72
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Markings
Signed, in black ink with brush, upper right: L.Spilliaert
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Provenance
Estate of the artist (died 1946) L + R Entwistle (London, England). 1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Leon Spilliaert, Self-Portrait, ca. 1903, brush and black ink and pastel on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, General Art Purchase Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, 1989.72.
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