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When the Sun Rises

A work made of watercolor and gouache, with pen and black and blue ink, colored pencils, transferred blue and gray ink and scraping, on cream wove paper, laid down on masonite.

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  • A work made of watercolor and gouache, with pen and black and blue ink, colored pencils, transferred blue and gray ink and scraping, on cream wove paper, laid down on masonite.

Date:

1961

Artist:

Oyvind Fahlström
Swedish, born Brazil, 1928-1976

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Oyvind Fahlström

Title

When the Sun Rises

Place

Sweden (Artist's nationality)

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1961

Medium

Watercolor and gouache, with pen and black and blue ink, colored pencils, transferred blue and gray ink and scraping, on cream wove paper, laid down on masonite

Dimensions

49 × 64.6 cm (19 5/16 × 25 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1963.25

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