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Beat Generation, from "Occupations"
1942
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 28.3 x 37.9 cm (11 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number2009.2308.6
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van de Loo 50
Description"Occupations" is a set of twenty-three etchings accompanied by a title page, an essay by the poet René Bertellé, a list of plates, and a colophon signed by Jorn and Bertellé. It is encased in a green burlap portfolio cover. "Occupations" was printed by the master printer R. Tamburro in 1960 and published by the Galerie Rive Gauche in an edition of 50.
ProvenanceSotheby's London, Lot 320, (November 8, 2001); to Charles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings (Portland, CT); from whom purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession date: April 22, 2009)