Artist Monograph

Hans Hartung, French

French, born Germany. 1904–1989

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	5	41.7%
Etching	3	25%
Oil Painting	1	8.3%
Other Media	1	8.3%
Screenprint	1	8.3%
Drawing	1	8.3%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	11	91.7%
Painting & Sculpture	1	8.3%

Production by Decade

3

1940s

6

1950s

2

1960s

1

1970s

Classification Types

Print — 9
Painting — 1
Drawing — 1
Illustrated Book — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	25%
Medium (30–100 cm)	8	66.7%
Large (1–3 m)	1	8.3%

Range: 15.6 cm → 146.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1949	2
1952	1
1954	2
1960	1
1966	1
1967	1
1968	1
1972	1
1973	1
1987	1

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 12 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Plate (folio 22) from Art abstrait (Abstract Art) Illustrated Book Acc. 614.1949.7	1946	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 9 1/8 × 6 13/16" (23.2 × 17.3 cm); page (each): 12 13/16 × 9 5/8" (32.5 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Composition Print Acc. 126.1949	1948	Drypoint	plate: 6 1/8 x 4 1/2" (15.6 x 11.4 cm); sheet: 8 11/16 x 6 11/16" (22 x 17 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Painting Painting Acc. 50.1952	1948	Oil on canvas	38 1/4 x 57 1/2" (97.2 x 146 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of John L. Senior, Jr.
#18 Print Acc. 92.1954	(1953)	Etching and aquatint	plate: 20 11/16 x 15 1/4" (52.5 x 38.7 cm); sheet: 26 x 19 11/16" (66 x 50 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Larry Aldrich Fund
Composition II Print Acc. 91.1954	1953	Etching and aquatint	plate: 8 3/4 x 25 11/16" (22.2 x 65.3 cm); sheet: 11 x 29 15/16" (28 x 76 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Larry Aldrich Fund
Etching #5 Print Acc. 9.1972	(1953)	Etching	plate: 9 3/8 x 11 11/16" (23.8 x 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 18 15/16" (37 x 48.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
L 12 Print Acc. 170.1973	1957	Lithograph	composition: 19 7/16 x 11 11/16" (49.4 x 29.7 cm); sheet: 26 x 19 13/16" (66 x 50.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Richards H. Emerson
L 73 Print Acc. 147.1960	1958	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 18 3/4 x 24 3/16" (47.6 x 61.5 cm); sheet: 22 1/16 x 29 7/8" (56 x 75.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Armand P. Bartos
No. 78 Print Acc. 243.1967	1958	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 21 7/16 x 13 3/16" (54.5 x 33.5 cm); sheet: 25 9/16 x 19 5/8" (65 x 49.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Armand P. Bartos
Untitled Drawing Acc. 158.1966	1960	Charcoal and chalk on paper	25 7/8 x 19 7/8" (65.5 x 50.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Anonymous gift
L 102 Print Acc. 47.1968	1963	Lithograph	composition: 22 5/8 x 15 7/8" (57.5 x 40.3 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 1/4" (76 x 56.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John S. Newberry Fund
L-31-1973 from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) Print Acc. 22.1987.49	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.): 18 1/2 x 25 1/16" (47 x 63.7cm); sheet: 22 1/16 x 29 7/8" (56 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)