The Acrobats

1922

Carlo Carra, Artist Bauhaus, Weimar and Mueller, and Company, Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title The Acrobats

Artwork Date 1922

Makers Carlo Carra (Artist) Italian, 1881-1966 Bauhaus, Weimar and Mueller, and Company (Publisher) German

Medium Lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions Image: 11 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches (29.8 × 21.6 cm) Plate: 13 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (34.9 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 15 1/8 × 11 1/8 inches (38.4 × 28.3 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Cleo K. Gruber in memory of Lester A. Gruber

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1985.53

Markings

Signed Signed, on plate, lower right: C. Carra 1922 Signed, in pen and brown ink, lower left [artist's name is underlined]: "I saltimbanchi" Carlo Carra

Marks Embossed, lower left, Bauhaus signet, Sternenmannchen, reading: STAATLICHES BAUHAUS WEIMAR

Provenance

Cleo Gruber;
1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Wingler, H.M. Die Mappenwerke, Neue Europaische Graphik. Mainz and Berlin, 1965, p. 151 (pl. 50) [IV/3].

Bigongiari, P., M. Carra. L'Opera Completa di Carra dal Futurismo Alla Metadisica al Realismo Mitico,1910-1930. Milan, 1970, p. 111 (ill.), cat. no. S 5.

Carra, M., M. Valsecchi. Carlo Carra, Opera Grafica (1922-1964). Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 1976, p. 36 (fig. 9), no. 9.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Carlo Carra, The Acrobats, 1922, lithograph in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Cleo K. Gruber in memory of Lester A. Gruber, F1985.53.