Catalogue
- Year
- 1972
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Portfolio: 22 x 28" (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Marcel Jean
Artist
Printmaking
Marcel Jean was a French sculptor and painter active from the early twentieth century through the postwar period. Working primarily in bronze and wood, he developed a formal language that moved between figurative and abstract vocabularies, often incorporating surrealist compositional strategies. His work remained rooted in material experimentation and spatial construction rather than narrative content.
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Untitled
1947 · Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper
Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947
1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object
Birth of a Sailboat
1946 · Oil on canvas
Untitled
1942 · Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper
Untitled
1940 · Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper
Untitled
1940 · Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper
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- Marcel Jean
- Year
- 1972
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Portfolio: 22 x 28" (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1972-M080803
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Status
- verified