Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Satire of Dieting
Object Number:
2000.824
Date:
1958
Medium:
Black ink on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/2 x 10 in. ( 31.8 x 25.4 cm )
Marks:
black ink: upper right: "Wyeth/ juin/ 58"
black ink: right center: "a little bit of every/ thing. I am on a diet."
black ink: lower center: "un poquito de cada cosa. el doctor me/ ha puesto a regimen".
black ink: each vignette numbered: "1-6"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at upper right in black ink: "Wyeth / Juin / 58"; at lower left inside image: "A little bit of every / thing. I am on a diet."; below outside image: " un poquito de / cada cosa. [crossed out] / el doctor me / la puesta a / regimen"
Description:
Cartoon: Six numbered and framed vignettes with a buxom woman visiting a doctor who gives her a prescription, presumably for dieting, and she goes to a restaurant where she eats "a little bit of everything."
Gallery Label:
Oscar Fabres (1894-1959) was a Chilean artist and illustrator who lived in New York.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Oscar Fabres through the estate of Francine Salmon
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
