Magic Noire, from the series Protuberances Cardiaques

Kurt Seligmann, Swiss, 1900 - 1962

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1933

Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Edition of 100

Image: 13 × 10 9/16 in. (33 × 26.9 cm)

Plate: 13 3/4 × 11 5/16 in. (34.9 × 28.7 cm)

Sheet: 19 1/8 × 14 9/16 in. (48.6 × 37 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from the R. C. Lilly Foundation in memory of Churchill P. Lathrop

PR.998.31

Geography

Place Made: Switzerland, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right: K. Seligmann 33; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Magic Noire / epreuve; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: a' Monsieur Zwemmer / ami calement Seligmann / 1933

Exhibition History

Shadows and Hallucinations: Surrealist Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS308, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 24-September 5, 1999.

Surrealist Works from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, MALS, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 20-September 1, 2002.

Teaching the History of Western Art 1500-Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 27-March 11, 2001.

Provenance

Charles M. Young Fine Prints & Drawings, Glastonbury, Connecticut; sold to present collection, 1998.

Catalogue Raisonne

Mason 26, iii/iii

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