Mio, Milhaud

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1955

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Research Projects

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Variant Date: 1956.
Medium: Woodcut.
Print Image Size: 17 x 31 7/8 inches.
Print Edition: 5-10 (with 1 artist's proof).
Alternate Medium: Color woodcut.
Ink(s): blue, black.
Support: wove mulberry paper.
An expressive, broad-faced portrait of composer Darius Milhaud. Text to the left of his head reads "le boeuf sur le twat." It is a phonetic play on the French title of The Cow on the Roof, a surrealist Milhaud composition. The knot in the carved woodblock was turned into Milhaud's right eye.

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