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

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated ca. 1914 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, black ink, graphite on cream 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

31.4 × 19.4 cm (12 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for Title Page for Les Jardins d'André Vera; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; brush and watercolor, gouache, black ink, graphite on cream tracing paper; 31.4 × 19.4 cm (12 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-20

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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