Praying Mantis

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Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis
Artist/Maker (Russian, 1890 - 1967)
Publisher (active New York, c.1950 – c.1973)
Date1964
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsComposition: 22 1/2 × 16 3/4 in. (57.2 × 42.5 cm) Sheet: 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elbert Lenrow, Class of 1923
Object number1984.416
Not on view
DescriptionTwo abstract figures engaged in an embrace
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Signature Signed and dated LRC: "O. Zadkine 1966"
Inscribed Recto LLC "45/200" Verso LLC "Praying Mantis"
Fireangel
Fireangel
Ossip Zadkine
Date: 1965
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.415
Photo by John Bentham.
Ball Play, plate 23 from "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.125
Photo by John Bentham.
Ball-play Dance, plate 22 from "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.124
Photo by John Bentham.
Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves Attacking a Buffalo Bull, plate 10 from the "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.113
Two Dancers
Two Dancers
Massimo Campigli
Date: 1965
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.84
Urn
Urn
Frans Rudolf Wildenhain
Date: 1970s
Medium: Stoneware with glaze
Object number: 1989.38
Image Not Available for N’est-il pas vrai.., brave turco..., que vous préférez les Francaises aux Africaines? (Isn't it true, brave Turco..., that you prefer French women to African women?), no. 100 from the series "Actualités (Current Events)"
N’est-il pas vrai.., brave turco..., que vous préférez les Francaises aux Africaines? (Isn't it true, brave Turco..., that you prefer French women to African women?), no. 100 from the series "Actualités (Current Events)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published August 31, 1859
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1986.10
© Marla Sweeney. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
Brothers, South Boston Beach
Marla Sweeney
Date: 2003
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.22
Red Flower
Red Flower
Hideo Yoshihara
Date: 1960
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.410
Flowers for Narcissus
Flowers for Narcissus
Hannes Postma
Date: 1967
Medium: Color etching and lithograph
Object number: 1984.274
Eclipse
Eclipse
Italo Valenti
Date: 1970
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.372
Fleurs Bleues
Fleurs Bleues
Augustin Ubeda
Date: 1968
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.364