About the Artwork
There Was a Man and He Had Naught
ca. 1944
Alexander Calder
1898-1976
American
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Pen and black ink on cream wove paper
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (28.6 × 26 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.234
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Markings
Signed, in pen an brown ink, lower right: A. Calder
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 95 [partially erased] Inscribed, lower left, verso: There was a man and he had naught Inscribed, lower right, verso: T 16 t17889 a [circled] 9-30-13
Stamp, in black ink, upper right, verso: 00892 Stamp, in red ink, upper right, verso: 81 line
Provenance
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Alexander Calder, Mobiles, Stabiles, Gouaches, Drawings from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1983, no. 89.
"Family Art Game." Detroit News, April 10, 1983, p. 20 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].
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© 2005 Estate of Alexander Calder / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Alexander Calder, There Was a Man and He Had Naught, ca. 1944, pen and black ink on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.234.
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