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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Morphine Addict

Morphine Addict

1897
(French, 1841–1917)
(French, 1858–1936)
(French, 1867–1939)
France
color lithograph
Image: 41.3 x 31.2 cm (16 1/4 x 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 56.7 x 42.5 cm (22 5/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2018.31
Location: not on view

Description

Eugène Grasset was best known for idealized and decorative images of women. This lithograph, however, focuses on a darker theme—morphine addiction. A young woman is shown at the height of withdrawal as she injects herself with the drug. The syringe was invented just a few decades prior, and its inclusion was meant to give the image a sense of modernity.
  • ?-?
    Albin Woldemar von Dietel [1861-1928, L. 2722b]
    2018
    (Susan Schulman, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    2018-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Johnson, Una E. Ambroise Vollard, Éditeur: Prints, Books, Bronzes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Mentioned: p. 135; reproduced: p. 122
  • {{cite web|title=Morphine Addict|url=false|author=Eugène Grasset, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1897|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.31