Nature Morte à la Danseuse

1962

Mario Avati

Associated Names
Mario Avati

Artist, French, 1921 - 2009

The image shows a large framed artwork featuring a dancer superimposed with concentric circles, a white smoking pipe, and a white bowl on a rectangular surface. The color palette of the image includes shades of black, white, and gray. The framed artwork is at the top center, and the bowl and pipe are on the surface below, with the bowl on the right and the pipe extending horizontally across the middle.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on BFK Rives wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.51

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Passeron, Vol. III, no. 325, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E. Weyhe; purchased 1963 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 143.

Bibliography

1973

  • Passeron, Roger. Mario Avati l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1973-1979.

Inscriptions

recto: below plate, from left to right, in graphite: EPREUVE D'ARTISTE I/X NATURE MORTE A LA DANSENSE AVATI 62; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

RIVES

Wikidata ID

Q65511179

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