Vanity Fair

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Medium

brush and black ink with watercolor and scratchwork on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 37.47 × 30.32 cm (14 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.)

sheet: 40.96 × 31.91 cm (16 1/8 × 12 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J.L.M. Curry)

Accession Number

2015.19.2696

Artists / Makers

Guy Pène du Bois (artist) American, 1884 - 1958

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Inscription

upper left in black ink: VANITY FAIR; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: PD-355; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 5317 / #400

Marks and Labels

embossed upper left: EXTRA SHAMROCK BRISTOL BOARD [circled] / A N C / NY

Provenance

(Graham Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Curry, J.L.M.
Graham Gallery

Exhibition History

1980: Guy Pene du Bois: Artist About Town, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1980-1981, p. 72, no. 26, repro

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 179, no. 1219.