Louis Marcoussis
Le Comptoir (The Bar)

Le Comptoir (The Bar)

Public Domain

Le Comptoir (The Bar)
ArtistFrench, 1883–1941
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Le Comptoir (The Bar)
  • from Die Schaffenden (The Creators)
Date1920, printed 1922
MediumEtching, aquatint, and drypoint in brown on cream Japanese paper, proof IV/IV, before steel facing for signed edition of 125
DimensionsPlate: 7 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (18.7 × 14.3 cm)
 Sheet: 16 1/4 × 12 1/8 in. (41.3 × 30.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Isabel and Ransom Lummis and Eugenia G. and Thomas L. Carter in honor of Wallace S. Wilson and William N. Mathis at "One Great Night in November, 2011"
Object number2011.1030
Non exposé

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Alexander Archipenko: The Berlin Drawings,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 15–August 17, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Titled in plate lower center: LE COMPTOIR
Signed in plate lower center: Marcoussis 1920
Signed below plate in pencil lower right: Marcoussis
Gallery label on frame verso lower center
Catalogue raisonnéMilet 35 iv

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