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(The Flies)
Large Abstract Head
(The Flies)
Theodore Roszak (American (born in Poland), 1907–1981)
1954
Medium/Technique
Pen and ink with transparent and opaque watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 165.1 x 110.8 cm (65 x 43 5/8 in.)
Framed: 182.2 x 128.9 x 3.5 cm (71 3/4 x 50 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Framed: 182.2 x 128.9 x 3.5 cm (71 3/4 x 50 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund, Prints, Drawings and Photographs Curator's Discretionary Fund, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund, Helen B. Sweeney Fund, and Ellen Kelleran Gardner Fund
Accession Number2005.197
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Marks
On backing board -- label of Pembroke Gallery (Houston, TX)
On backing board -- label of Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, NY)
On backing board -- label of G. W. Einstein Co. (New York, NY)
On backing board -- label of Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, NY)
On backing board -- label of G. W. Einstein Co. (New York, NY)
InscriptionsSigned lower right in pen and black ink: Theodore Roszak
Signed verso upper right in pen and gray-brown ink: Theodore Roszak
Verso upper right: (Study / "the Flies")
Signed verso upper right in pen and gray-brown ink: Theodore Roszak
Verso upper right: (Study / "the Flies")
ProvenanceThe artist's estate; his daughter Sara Jane Roszak (New York); G. W. Einstein Co. (New York) from whom purchased by MFA.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.