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La Nuit (Night)
1952
Medium/Technique
Etching with monotype inking, trial proof printed in blue-green, yellow, and black
Dimensions
Platemark: 23.5 × 30.7 cm (9 1/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 38.6 × 46 cm (15 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 38.6 × 46 cm (15 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number2018.28
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Rivière 89
DescriptionTrial color proof apart from the edition of 16. Later reprinted and published in the 1968 portfolio "Hayterophiles"
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.l.: La Nuit; b.c.: Monotype; l.r.: Alechinsky 52; verso, in black ink: Helen Phillips Hayter
ProvenanceCollection of Helen Phillips (b. 1913 - d. 1995); 2017, gift of the Helen Phillips estate to Dolan/Maxwell Inc., Philadelphia; 2018, sold by Dolan/Maxwell to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 21, 2018)