Nude With Lion

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Nude With Lion
Nude With Lion
Artist/Maker (Polish, born 1911)
Date1966
MediumOil on board
DimensionsComposition: 45.4 × 57.8 cm (17 7/8 × 22 3/4 in.) Frame: 59.7 × 72.4 × 3.8 cm (23 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Richard F. Plotka, Class of 1956
Object number1986.39
Not on view
Descriptionnude woman sits in a jungle setting beneath a flowering tree with a lion

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1987
Clinton, NY. Bistol Campus Center, Hamilton College. "Primitive Paintings from the Hamilton College Collection: Gifts of Richard F. Plotka '56", , March 23 - June 1987 (no cat.).
Provenance 1986: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Richard F. Plotka.
Published References Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Friends of Art Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, February 1988, "Acquisitions 1986"
Signature recto lower right
Inscribed on back is written in pencil "$ (scratched out) "Statue S. Lion" by Plaskocinsky"
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