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The Paradise Sonata (Series of Four) 4. (1920)

Max Švabinský

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Plate 1: a naked man sleeping with a tiger in a bower in the jungle dreams a vision of a naked woman holding a dove to her breast, while a stork flaps its wings at the top left. 1918/20 Wood-engraving. Signed in pencil by the engraver with another illegible inscription.

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

79.8 x 53 cm

Accession Number:

1929,0209.13

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1929

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, 16 July 1928 (for £24 8s. the set); presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, 1929

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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