La Bombe Et La Coquillage (The Bomb and the Shell0

Skip to main content
La Bombe Et La Coquillage (The Bomb and the Shell0
La Bombe Et La Coquillage (The Bomb and the Shell0
Artist/Maker (French, born Monaco, 1921 – 2009)
Publisher (active New York, c.1950 – c.1973)
Date1965
MediumAquatint and mezzotint on paper
DimensionsComposition: 10 3/4 in. × 11 in. (27.3 × 27.9 cm) Sheet: 14 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (37.8 × 47.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elbert Lenrow, Class of 1923
Object number1984.62
Not on view

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1986
Clinton, NY. Bristol Campus Center, Hamilton College. "Summer Subjects", May 21 - September 11, 1986 (no cat.).
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Elbert Lenrow.
Markings Watermark on verso at lower left: BFK
Signature Signed in pencil at lower right: AVATI
Inscribed Entitled in pencil at lower left: LA BOMBE ET LE COQUILLAGE; editioned in pencil at lower left: 28/210; annotated in pencil on verso at lower left: Mario Avati. (Monaco, 1921) / 66: Nov. 65
© Mario Moore.
Garland of Resilience
Mario Moore
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on linen
Object number: 2025.21
Que se rompe la cuerda (May the Cord Break), plate 77 from the series "Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War)"
Que se rompe la cuerda (May the Cord Break), plate 77 from the series "Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War)"
Francisco Goya
Date: 1810-1820, printed 1906
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 1997.6.2
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
Date: August, 1965
Medium: United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.291
Soldier with Bombs on hands
Soldier with Bombs on hands
Lou Stoumen
Date: c. 1944
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.128
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Bomb Pin and Tag, Kunming, China
Lou Stoumen
Date: 1944 (printed 1980s)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.135
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.15
A car bomb explosion outside the Alexander Hotel, Ashrafiya Christian quarter, Beirut
A car bomb explosion outside the Alexander Hotel, Ashrafiya Christian quarter, Beirut
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1982
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.16
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published April 22, 1847
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1928.5
Carte Reduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L'Amerique Pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressee Au Dêpost Des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, Par Ordre de M. Le Comte de Maurepas. Annee 1749.
Carte Reduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L'Amerique Pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressee Au Dêpost Des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, Par Ordre de M. Le Comte de Maurepas. Annee 1749.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Date: 1749
Medium: Engraving with hand coloring
Object number: 1971.58
Photograph by John Bentham.
Palenque de los moros hecho con burros para defenderse del toro embolado (The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls), plate 17 from "La Tauromaquia" (The Bullfight)
Francisco Goya
Date: 1815, first published 1816
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 1928.8
Cathédrale de Reims, Chapiteau du Triforium de la Nef et Chapiteau d'un Pilier de la Chapelle de la Vierge, XIII Siècle
Cathédrale de Reims, Chapiteau du Triforium de la Nef et Chapiteau d'un Pilier de la Chapelle de la Vierge, XIII Siècle
Neurdein Frères Photo Studio
Date: 1906-1915
Medium: Albumen print
Object number: S2018.2.508
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
Femmes et Perroquets (Women and Parrots), from the series "La Ville (The City)"
Fernand Leger
Date: published 1959
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1985.34