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Morphine Addict
Eugène Grasset, Ambroise Vollard1897
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Morphine Addict
- Creator: Eugène Grasset (French, 1841-1917), Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939)
- Date Created: 1897
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: Albin Woldemar von Dietel [1861-1928, L. 2722b], (Susan Schulman, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.31
- Medium: color lithograph
- Series: L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard
- Inscriptions: Signed in graphite, lower right: Grasset, in plate, lower left: monogram of the artist, collector’s mark, lower right: Dr. Albin Woldemar von Dietel (L. 2772b)
- Department: Prints
- Culture: France
- Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Accession Number: 2018.31
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