Louis Welden Hawkins
Masque

Masque

Public Domain

Masque
ArtistFrench, 1849–1910
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Masque
Datec. 1900
PlaceFrance
MediumBlack chalk and pencil on light brown paper
Dimensions17 × 9 3/8 in. (43.2 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2009.1493
Not on view

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Department
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Object Type
ProvenanceBy descent within the artist's family, to Mme. G. Lomon-Hawkins, Paris, by 1986; [Galerie du Cygne, Paris, 1993]; [Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 28, 1996, lot 56]; [Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris]; private collection; [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, by 2008-2009]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition History"Le Symbolisme et la femme," Paris, Toulon and Pau, 1986, no. 28

"Louis Welden Hawkins," Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 1993, no.13b

"Circa 1900: Decorative Arts at the Turn of the Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alice Pratt Brown Gallery, February 26-July 31, 2011.

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