- Artist
- Julio González 1876–1942
- Original title
- Personnage aux boules dit 'Sévère'
- Medium
- Ink, crayon and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 356 × 279 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mme Roberta Gonzalez-Richard, the artist's daughter 1972
- Reference
- T01615
Catalogue entry
Julio González
1876-1942
T01615 Personnage aux Boules dit 'Sévère'
(Figure with Balls known as 'Severe') 1938
Inscribed '28-10-38 | J.G.' b.r.
Pen, crayon and pencil on yellow paper, 14 x 11 (35.6 x 28)
Presented by Roberta González 1972
Exh:
Tři Španĕlé: Dominguez - González - De la Serna, Umĕlecká Beseda, Prague, November-December 1946 (13); Julio González, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, April-May 1967 (38, repr.); Julio González: Drawings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, touring exhibition, November 1968-January 1971 (34) as 'Standing Figure'
Lit: Josette Gibert, Julio González Dessins: Projets pour Sculptures: Personnages
(Paris 1975), p.73 repr. as 'Personnage aux Boules dit "Sévère" '
Repr: Ronald Alley, The González Gift to the Tate Gallery
(London 1974), p.35
Entitled by Roberta González both 'Personnage aux Boules' and 'Personnage Sévère'. There is a sketchy pencil drawing on the verso of a rather similar form.
[All the drawings by Julio González given to the Tate are authenticated on the back by his daughter Roberta González and inscribed with a title and date, or approximate date. The titles are used in the catalogue entries, but the dating has been made more precise wherever possible. (Julio González's drawings are usually dated from about 1934 onwards, but the great majority of the early drawings are undated).]
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.318, reproduced p.318
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