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Afro (Basaldella)

El Sereno

1954

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Afro (Basaldella)

El Sereno

1954

Physical Qualities Watercolor, crayon, and pen and brown ink on paper, Sheet: 208 × 159 mm. (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore
Object Number 2005.139
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2005; Laurance and Isabel Roberts, Baltimore, by purchase from the artist 1955
Galleria L'Obelisco, Rome, "Greetings to the Roberts," December 15, 1959 - ?
G. Belli, (ed.), M. De Pilati, Fondazione Archivio Afro, "Afro - Il periodo americano", exhibition catalogue, M.A.R.T., Rovereto, 17 March - 8 July 2012, Electa publisher, Milan 2012, p.192, (r.c.)

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "El Serano"; lower right in graphite: "a Isabelle / afro 1955"; by later hand on frame's backing board: "by Afro- / purchased"

Artist

Afro (Basaldella)

1911–1975

Italian, 1912-1976
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