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Jean Charlot: American, born France, 1898 - 1979

Paul Claudel: French, 1868 - 1955

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The Rocking Chair
1933: chromolithograph from a bound volume with 32 chromolithographs on wove paper, with vignettes on the cover, title page, and colophon and stored in a cardboard slipcase wrapped in a trompe l'oeil image of woven reeds; image: 15.24 × 20.32 cm (6 × 8 in.); sheet: 27.94 × 21.91 cm (11 × 8 5/8 in.)
book: 27.94 × 21.91 × 1.59 cm (11 × 8 5/8 × 5/8 in.)
case: 28.58 × 22.54 × 1.91 cm (11 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 3/4 in.); Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy; 2016.148.19.2; Not on View

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signed in plate at lower left of image turned parallel to gutter of book: Jean Charlot .33.; signed in black pen and ink on colophon by the artist, typesetter, and designer: 401. / Jean / Charlot / Lynton R. Kistler / Merle Armitage

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Gift to NGA in 2016 by Bob Stana and Tom Judy, Washington, DC.

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