Artist Monograph

Édouard Pignon, French

French, 1905–1993

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	9	64.3%
Etching	2	14.3%
Screenprint	2	14.3%
Watercolor	1	7.1%

Production by Decade

9

1940s

3

1950s

1

1960s

1

1970s

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 7
Print — 6
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	21.4%
Medium (30–100 cm)	11	78.6%

Range: 16.1 cm → 75.7 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1946	7
1948	2
1951	1
1957	1
1958	1
1987	1
2003	1

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 14 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.1-6	1945	Illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. page 16 15/16 x 12 13/16" (43 x 32.5 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Frontispiece from Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.1	1945	One from an illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. composition 12 x 9 7/16" (30.5 x 24 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Plate (folio 11) from Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.4	1945	One from an illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. composition 16 7/8 x 9 15/16" (42.8 x 25.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Plate (folio 13) from Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.5	1945	One from an illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. composition 16 15/16 x 12 1/16" (43 x 30.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Plate (folio 7) from Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.2	1945	One from an illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. composition 16 5/8 x 12" (42.2 x 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Plate (folio 9) from Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.3	1945	One from an illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. composition 16 3/4 x 12 9/16" (42.5 x 32 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Tailpiece (folio 15) from Blasons Illustrated Book Acc. 126.1946.6	1945	One from an illustrated book with six lithographs	irreg. composition 6 1/2 x 11 1/2" (16.5 x 29.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jean Delmas
Three Mothers Print Acc. 360.1948	1945	Lithograph	composition: 13 x 18 11/16" (33 x 47.4 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 x 20 15/16" (40.9 x 53.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld
Ostend Drawing Acc. 270.1948	1948	Watercolor on paper	20 1/2 x 27 1/2" (52.1 x 69.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund
Ostend Print Acc. 181.1951	1950	Lithograph	composition: 10 3/4 x 16 3/4" (27.3 x 42.6 cm); sheet: 15 3/16 x 22 1/4" (38.5 x 56.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Bertha M. Slattery
Landscape Print Acc. 191.1957	c. 1955	Etching and aquatint	plate: 6 5/16 x 5 1/8" (16.1 x 13 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11" (38 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Larry Aldrich
Cock Print Acc. 371.1958	1958	Etching, aquatint and scraper	plate: 10 1/2 × 7 15/16" (26.6 × 20.1 cm); sheet: 13 × 19 5/8" (33 × 49.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Galerie de France, Paris
Untitled from Flight, Untitled from Flight Print Acc. 367.2003.11	1967, published 1971	Lithograph from a portfolio of eleven lithographs and one screenprint	composition (irreg.): 15 11/16 × 21 9/16" (39.9 × 54.8 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 × 25 11/16" (50.4 × 65.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine Farley
Picasso Soleil from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) Print Acc. 22.1987.40	1972, published 1973	Lithograph from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts	composition (irreg.): 21 x 29 13/16" (53.4 x 75.7cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 29 7/8" (55 x 75.9cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dorothy Miller (by exchange)