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Series Title: Some Well Known Fables

No. 5–The Dog and the Crocodile

1950

Antonio Frasconi

(American, 1919–2013)
Culture
America
Medium
woodcut
Measurements
Image: 40.7 x 29 cm (16 x 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 53.3 x 36.8 cm (21 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1952.214
Catalogue raisonné
CMA, 1952, 170
Copyright
© Estate of Antonio Frasconi / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

This portfolio was likely the source of his book 12 Fables of Aesop (1954) published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Description

Antonio Frasconi portrays a fable by ancient Roman author Phaedrus about the value of caution when enemies pose as friends: a dog avoids being eaten by a crocodile while drinking from the river in which the creature lives. The preparatory drawings show how Frasconi began by considering the animals, their personalities, and their relationship, while accommodating the rectangular composition of the woodblock on which he would carve his design. In the finished print, Frasconi used the texture of the wood grain to suggest the water’s ripples.

No. 5–The Dog and the Crocodile

1950

Antonio Frasconi

(American, 1919–2013)
America

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