Gustave Courbet

1969

Leonard Baskin

Associated Names
Leonard Baskin

Artist, American, 1922 - 2000

Gehenna Press

Publisher

The image depicts a drawn portrait of a person in a side profile, showing the upper body from the shoulders up. The person has distinctive facial features, a beard, and long hair. They are wearing a loose garment that drapes over one shoulder. A rectangular block, half dark and half light, frames part of the head and neck. The background is plain white.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving in black on Strathmore wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jay Finkel

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.6 × 9.2 cm (4 9/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.121.83

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 539

  • Series Title

    Laus Pictorum, Portraits of Nineteenth Century Artists

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jay Finkel, Washington, DC; acquired 2013 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1984

  • Fern, Alan, and Judith O'Sullivan. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1983. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1984, no. 539.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 140/175; lower right in graphite: Baskin

Wikidata ID

Q77005539

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