About the Artwork
The Yellow Person
1971
Carl Henning Pedersen
born 1913
Danish
Unknown
Watercolor and gouache
Sheet: 30 1/4 × 22 5/8 inches (76.8 × 57.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Booth
F81.381
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right, in black paint: C h p | 1971
Inscribed, on verso at lower right, in black ink (possibly in artist's hand): 17. Carl-Henning Pedersen | New York 1971. | The yellow person
Embossed, lower right: T GREEN PLTREP (?)
Provenance
1972, Lefebre Gallery (New York, New York, USA). 1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Carl Henning Pedersen, The Yellow Person, 1971, watercolor and gouache. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Booth, F81.381.
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