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"tombstone": "Paris Subway, Ferris Wheel and Eiffel Tower, c. 1912\u201313. Gino Severini (Italian, 1883\u20131966). Pastel and charcoal; sheet: 59.6 x 48.2 cm (23 7/16 x 19 in.); framed: 92 x 71.8 x 3 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride, 1942.249. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Paris Subway, Ferris Wheel and Eiffel Tower",
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"inscription": "Signed bottom center: \"Severini\"",
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"title": "Utopian Visions in Modern Art: Dreams and Nightmares",
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"title": "Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988",
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"id": 283693,
"title": "Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).",
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"description": "(sale, John Quinn Collection, American Art Association, New York, February 9-12, 1927, no. 412)",
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"did_you_know": "The blue and white text in Gino Severini's drawing refers to the signs for the S\u00e8vres and Cambronne stations, which he passed while taking the Paris M\u00e9tro to the Eiffel Tower.",
"description": "Gino Severini joined the Futurist movement, which emphasized the dynamism, movement, and energy of the modern city, in 1910. He began to depict modern modes of transportation and developed an interest in machines and speed. This pastel was created after Severini visited Paris, in 1911, where he admired technological advances such as the Eiffel Tower and the M\u00e9tro, the city's relatively new public transportation system. Here, he suggests velocity through shifting planes and viewpoints and abruptly juxtaposing word and image.",
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"citation": "Fletcher, Valerie J. Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum, 1983.",
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 6; Reproduced: p. 6",
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"citation": "Hicken, Adrian. Apollinaire, Cubism and Orphism. New York: Routledge, 2002.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 208, n. 52",
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"citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 58-59, fig. 10",
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