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Study of a Crab

Erik Desmazières and René Tazé

Study of a Crab

1990

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Study of a Crab

1990

Physical Qualities Color etching, aquatint, and roulette, Sheet: 587 x 383 mm. (23 1/8 x 15 1/16 in.) Plate: 298 x 238 mm. (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Jay McKean Fisher, Baltimore, in Memory of Arsène Bonafous-Murat
Object Number 2014.155
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2014; Jay M. Fisher, Baltimore; purchased from Arsène Bonafous-Murat, representing the artist, May 2006

Signed: printed from four plates

Inscribed: Recto: at lower left, in graphite: "87/90"; at lower center, in graphite: "étude de crabe"; at lower right, in graphite: "Erik Desmazières" Verso: to check

Artist and Publisher

Erik Desmazières

1947–2000

French, born Morocco, 1948
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Printer

René Tazé

2000–2000

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