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Erik Desmazières

Study of a Crab (Étude de crabe), 1991

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Medium

etching, aquatint and roulette on Tiepolo Fabriano wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.85 × 23.81 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

sheet: 48.58 × 37.94 cm (19 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Faya Causey in memory of Philip Conisbee

Catalogue Raisonné

Fitch 1981-2011, no. 134

Accession Number

2018.182.5

Artists / Makers

Erik Desmazières (artist) French, born 1948

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: 15/90; lower center in graphite: étude de crabe; lower right in graphite: Erik Desmazières 1991

Provenance

Faya Causey, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Causey, Faya

Bibliography

1981: Fitch, Andrew, ed. Erik Desmazières: Etchings, 1991-2001. New York: Fitch-Febvrel Gallery, 2001, no. 134.

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