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Antonio Frasconi, artist
Uruguayan (born Argentina), 1919 -
Untitled (Poe's Head), first plate in the book The Face of Edgar Allan Poe. With a Note on Poe by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Lois and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. ([New York: n. p., 1959]), 1959
woodcut on handmade Goyu paper
Sheet: 187 x 132 mm (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.); Image: 72 x 50 mm (2 13/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Hopper Fitch 1986.1.149.2

author, Charles Baudelaire

Artist Biography: Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 28,1919. Parents had emigrated from Italy and family soon settled in Montevideo, Uruguay. Left Montevideo in April, 1945 to enroll at the Art Students League, New York.NY and live permanently in U.S.From 1973 on taught at SUNY, Purchase. Has lived in South Norwalk, Connecticut since 1957.

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