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Drawing, Design for necklace: Colliers

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Gilles Derain. It is dated 1982 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and wash, gouache, graphite on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Gilles Derain. It is credited Gift of Gilles Derain.

Its dimensions are

Frame: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower right corner: Gilles Derain / 82

It is inscribed

In pen and black ink, in upper center section of sheet, just to right of drawing: no. 3 / fin

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for necklace: Colliers; Designed by Gilles Derain (b. 1944); France; pen and black ink, brush and wash, gouache, graphite on white wove paper; Frame: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.); Gift of Gilles Derain; 1995-61-4

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

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