Composition for a World Map

1948 - 1951

Joseph Hecht

Artist, Polish, 1891 - 1951

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    embossed engraving on shaped plates with dark pencil (crayon?) outline on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.2 × 33.2 cm (15 13/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 45 × 37 cm (17 11/16 × 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.16.48

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Tonneau-Ryckelynck and Plumart 1992, undescribed.

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1992

  • Tonneau-Ryckelynck, Dominique. Joseph Hecht 1891-951. Paris, 1992: 181.

Inscriptions

verso: lower right image, signed by the artist, in graphite: Joseph Hecht; lower right margin, in graphite, unknown hand: Compos. a la Mappe Monde; lower left margin, in graphite, unknown hand: 10. recto: lower right corner, in graphtie, unknown hand: 3065; lower left corner, stamped in black ink: LJR; lower corner, in graphite, unknown hand: 10.

Watermarks

Arches (lower left)

Wikidata ID

Q65360726

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