A Shrouded Figure Seated Before a Fantastic Skyscraper

1928

Francisco Borges Salas

Artist, Spanish, 1901 - 1994

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and stumped graphite heightened with white chalk on gray paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 63.7 x 48 cm (25 1/16 x 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.93.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Piasa Paris, 22 November 2000, no. 14); (Jean Luc Baroni Ltd., London); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

2001

  • Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd. Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, Winter 2-1-2002, no. 79.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: F. BORGES / TENERIFE--1928--

Wikidata ID

Q64569733

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