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Scene 1
1907
Gordon Craig
1872-1966
English
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Etching printed in black on laid paper
plate: 4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in. 10.4 x 8.2 cm sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. 29.2 x 23.8 cm
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Founders Society Purchase, Paul Mc Pharlin Memorial Fund
65.32
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
In plate, lower right corner: \artist's monogram!; in pencil, lower right: 1907 / EGC / \unidentified device!
In pencil, upper left corner of sheet: 11; in ink, upper right corner of face mat: 1; in pencil by the artist on back mat: In this first Portfolio - 1 to 12 - & in the second Portfolio - Nos. 13 to 18 / are all moments of the movement of the simplest form - or at any rate / the one which seems to me simplest \drawing of a cube! .Such / movement is always / direct & produces the / most beautiful form. / The 6 etchings 19 to 24 are not / concerned with movement. / In the first 18 you will see there are no actualities such as doors windows. / In the the last 6 they creep in -- more people creep in also-
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Gordon Craig, Scene 1, 1907, Etching printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Paul Mc Pharlin Memorial Fund, 65.32.
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