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Boy with a choc-ice: P.134-1961

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Boy with a choc-ice

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Latash, Aleksandra Natanovna

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Description

Head and shoulders of a blonde-haired child, head turned slightly towards the right. The child wears a dark, brown furry coat with a hood and red, patterned mittens. He/she holds an ice-cream in a wrapper in his/her right hand.

Notes

History note: Selected by Eric Chamberlain and Carl Winter from the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition, _Lithographs by twenty-seven Soviet artists_ (9 May-10 June, 1961).

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1961-07) by The Perceval Fund

Dating

20th Century
Production date: AD 1957

Note

Artist's Proof (one of ten). The subject of the child in the brown, hooded coat seems to have occupied Latash between c.1957 and 1963, as there are a number of lithographs featuring this or a similar child with and without ice-cream, in public collections and on the private market. See version with brown-patterned gloves, 'Child with Eskimo Pie', 1962, Corsini Williams Collection, reproduced in, _Lithography from Leningrad: Eric Estorick's Adventure in Soviet Art_ (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 20 November - 22 December 2019) p. 7. Also, collections at Perm State Museum (23336, without ice-cream and titled 'Eskimo', dated 1957) and Karelia Museum (design featuring this child and another full-length eating ice-cream and dated 1963). Information from Marie Stock.

School or Style

Russian

Components of the work

Image Height 380 mm Width 335 mm
Sheet Height 440 mm Width 405 mm

Techniques used in production

Lithography : Colour printing

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: written using the cyrillic alphabet

  • Text: лaтaш 1957
  • Location: Lower right
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Text: 15
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pen and ink
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: 78 / 2 STARS / F.W.
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in pencil
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: P.134-1961
Primary reference Number: 223210
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 17 July 2018 Updated: Wednesday 23 March 2022 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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