Fish Artist: Louis Marcoussis (French, born Poland, 1878–1941)

1926

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view

Medium

Oil under glass. Frame by Legrain (wood)

Dimensions

54.6 × 39.8 cm (21 1/2 × 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.556

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Bibliography
  • George Baker, "Leather and Lace," October 131 (Winter 2010): 141–43, ill.
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 178, ill.
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 437, no. 448, ill.
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 21-22, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Subject

fish

Signed

Marcoussis, Louis Casimir Ladislas, 1878-1941

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