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Pierre Courtin

High Tension

1959

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High Tension

Pierre Courtin

High Tension

Pierre Courtin

High Tension

1959

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 403 × 276 mm. (15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) Plate: 163 × 208 mm. (6 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Saidie A. May Bequest Fund
Object Number 1963.118
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1963; Theodore Schempp, Paris (and New York)

Signed: zinc

Inscribed: across bottom in graphite: "HAUTE TENSION. 31 juillet 1960 1-5 Pierre Courtin"

Artist

Pierre Courtin

1920–2011

French, 1921-2012
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