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A print split horizontally. The upper section features two sketches of a youth wearing a leafy wreath holding grapes, above two peach-colored fruits. The dark lower panel contains a chaotic grouping of deeply shaded, skeletal, and flayed figures. The image of the youth is after Caravaggio.
Bacchino Malato
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Bacchino Malato

Artist Jiri Anderle (Czech, born 1936)
Date1984
MediumDrypoint, etching
Dimensions37 5/8 x 25 1/4 in. (95.6 x 64.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1995.27.56
Collections
Visual DescriptionA print split horizontally. The upper section features two sketches of a youth wearing a leafy wreath holding grapes, above two peach-colored fruits. The dark lower panel contains a chaotic grouping of deeply shaded, skeletal, and flayed figures. The image of the youth is after Caravaggio.
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1982
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Jiri Anderle
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Jiri Anderle
1988
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1988
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1988
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1972
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