Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012


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The Balloons (Les Ballons)

1938
Jacques Villon
Sheet: 495.3 x 323.9 cm (195 x 127 1/2 in.)
Gouache, pen and black ink, over graphite on cream wove paper

Classification: Watercolors

Accession number: 2012.38

Provenance/Ownership History: 1964, with Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York. Private collection, Cleveland. September 26, 2009, anonymous sale, Aspire Auctions, Cleveland, lot 156, to Joan Nissman and Morton Abromson, Brookline, MA; 2012, sold by Joan Nissman and Morton Abromson to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 29, 2012)

Virginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund