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Drawing, Study for Title Page, Les Jardins d'André Vera

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated ca. 1919 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.

Its dimensions are

31.9 × 20.2 cm (12 9/16 × 7 15/16 in.), irregular Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

It is inscribed

Upper left margin, in graphite: donner plus d'intimité et d'unité; in box in lower margin, in pen and black ink: Les Jardins d'André Vera

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for Title Page, Les Jardins d'André Vera; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on tracing paper; 31.9 × 20.2 cm (12 9/16 × 7 15/16 in.), irregular Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-19

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.

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