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The Balloons (Les Ballons)
Jacques Villon (French, 1875–1963)
French
1938
Medium/Technique
Gouache, pen and black ink, over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 495.3 x 323.9 cm (195 x 127 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Virginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund
Accession Number2012.38
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Robbins, Villon, 1976, p. 187, no. 159b
Descriptionmural study
Signed
signed at edge of design in graphite l.l. "J.V." and u.r. "Jacques Villon/38"
Marks
water mark: "Atelier T.L. + Co Paris" and oval factory mark with letters A.L.; l.r. (in another hand? "Les Ballons"
Provenance1964, 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)