William Baziotes
The Drugged Balloonist
1942
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William Baziotes
The Drugged Balloonist
1942
Physical Qualities
Collage of printed papers, watercolor, pen and brush and ink, and graphite, Sheet: 464 × 609 mm. (18 1/4 × 24 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.266
The work is executed in watercolor, pen and brush and black ink, and collaged cut and torn papers with existing printing on a thick paperboard. The collage elements are various black and white photomechanical illustrations (photo-offset lithographs) apparently sourced from publications such as periodicals or magazines
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on loan, 1942; from Saidie A. May, by purchase, 1942; from Art of This Century, New York; from the artist
Surrealism USA
William Baziotes
Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction
Collage/Collages 1912-1962
The Renoir Returns
Harriet Janis and Rudi Blesh, "Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques." Philadelphia: Chilton Co., 1962, cat. 214, p. 160.
Michael Preble, "William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934 - 1962." Italy: Skira Editore, S.p.A., 2004, p.66, ill.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting", United States: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 202.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: lower left in black ink: "Baziotes"
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