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Marine Images

1949

Boris Margo

Associated Names

Boris Margo

Artist, American, 1902 - 1995

The image displays a composition of intricate, interlocking shapes and jagged lines forming an abstract pattern. The shapes have organic curves and sharp, pointed extensions. Textured shading and variations in tone add depth to the artwork, resembling patterns found in nature.

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Artwork overview

Medium

cellocut in black on wove paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 40.6 × 49.2 cm (16 × 19 3/8 in.)
sheet: 46 × 60.8 cm (18 1/8 × 23 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.3326
Catalogue Raisonné

Schmeckebier 1968, no. 72

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Bibliography

1968

Schmeckebier, Laurence. Boris Margo: Graphic Work, 1932-1968. New York: Syracuse University, 1968, no. 72.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Marine Images 4/7; lower center in graphite: Cellocut; lower right in graphite: Boris Margo 49

Wikidata ID

Q76455543

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