Clowns (Payasos)

1944

José Clemente Orozco

Artist, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint and aquatint on wove buff paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.7 × 21.2 cm (10 1/2 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 44.2 × 29.3 cm (17 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.585

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Orozco 2004, no. 42

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1970

  • Orozco V., Clemente, Marrozzini, Luigi. Catalogo Completo de la Obra Grafica de Orozco. Puerto Rico, 1970: no. 42, only

2004

  • Orozco, Clemente. José Clemente Orozco, Graphic Work. Austin, TX, 2004: 42.

Inscriptions

below image, at right, in graphite: J. C. Orozco; above image, at center, in graphite, by later hand: 7.3; to right of image, in graphite, by later hand: 7.3; to left of image, in graphite, by later hand: 7.3; below image, at center, in graphite, by later hand: 11 ½

Wikidata ID

Q76557246

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