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The Balloons (Les Ballons)

(French, 1875–1963)
1938
Medium/TechniqueGouache, pen and black ink, over graphite on cream wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 495.3 x 323.9 cm (195 x 127 1/2 in.)
Credit LineVirginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund
Accession number2012.38
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
Provenance1964, with Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York. Private collection, Cleveland. September 26, 2009, anonymous sale, Aspire Auctions, Cleveland, lot 156, to Joan Nissman and Morton Abromson, Brookline, MA; 2012, sold by Joan Nissman and Morton Abromson to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 29, 2012)