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The First Aviator

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The First Aviator

1933

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The First Aviator

1933

Physical Qualities Etching, roulette, and sulfur bite with printed tone, Sheet: 500 × 175 mm. (19 11/16 × 6 7/8 in.) Plate: 232 × 175 mm. (9 1/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate 8 from the portfolio "Cardiac Protuberances (Protubérances cardiaques)"
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paul Mann, Towson, Maryland
Object Number 1979.381.8
Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, "Surrealism and Magic," August 30, 2014 - December 21, 2014, Boca Raton Museum of Art, January 26, 2015 - April 05, 2015.

Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012..

Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.

Markings: WM: RIVES; Verso: at upper left, stamped in purple ink: "8"

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