Clowns (Payasos), 1944

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint and aquatint on wove buff paper

Dimensions

plate: 26.7 × 21.2 cm (10 1/2 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 44.2 × 29.3 cm (17 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Orozco 2004, no. 42

Accession Number

2012.92.585

Artists / Makers

José Clemente Orozco (artist) Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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Inscription

below image, at right, in graphite: J. C. Orozco; above image, at center, in graphite, by later hand: 7.3; to right of image, in graphite, by later hand: 7.3; to left of image, in graphite, by later hand: 7.3; below image, at center, in graphite, by later hand: 11 ½

Provenance

Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Bibliography

1970: Orozco V., Clemente, Marrozzini, Luigi. Catalogo Completo de la Obra Grafica de Orozco. Puerto Rico, 1970: no. 42, only

2004: Orozco, Clemente. José Clemente Orozco, Graphic Work. Austin, TX, 2004: 42.