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1965

  • Work on this object began.

1971

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Costume Design: Potemkin, for Pleasures and Palaces

This is a Drawing. It is dated 1965 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Freddy Wittop.

Its dimensions are

51 x 38.3 cm (20 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed at lower center : Freddy / Wittop.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in point of brush and black ink at upper right: POTEMKIN. Verso: inscribed in point of brush and black ink at upper left : Pleasures and Palaces.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Costume Design: Potemkin, for Pleasures and Palaces; USA; brush and opaque watercolor, graphite on gray illustration board; 51 x 38.3 cm (20 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.); Gift of Freddy Wittop; 1971-1-2

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