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The Bar, Marcoussis, 1920
A bottle, a glass and the word VINS, broken into planes.
What
Louis Marcoussis's print The Bar, 1920, in aquatint, etching and drypoint; Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1999.102.
Why
Marcoussis was a Cubist, and he took the zinc counter of a Paris bar apart.
Notice
The word VINS sits in a window at the upper left, a playing card shows half a word, and LE COMPTOIR is lettered along the foot.
“The bar in the language of the avant-garde.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
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Provenance
The Lost — mark extinguished- Artist
- Louis Marcoussis
- Country
- France
- Format
- Other
- Piece published
- The Bar, 1920
- Source
- Cleveland Museum of Art · 1999.102
Scan: The Cleveland Museum of Art; CC0 Open Access.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (piece published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the piece’s own publication year, never a brand’s founding year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. Dated 1920 by the museum; maker Louis Marcoussis (French, born Poland, 1883–1941); the Cleveland Open Access record reads CC0. Served from the house's own store, cropped.
This brand was no longer in the market. Everything sold here is the art, not the drink.
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