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Melville Price
Night Scene1945

Not on view
Oil painting of surrealist figures — a reclining nude, a large brown rounded form with claws, a black bull-like animal, and a teal bird — under an orange sun and blue night sky

Melville Price, Night Scene, 1945, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Melville Price
Title
Night Scene
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1945
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 12 1/2 x 16 in. (31.75 x 40.64 cm); Framed: 16 1/2 x 20 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (41.91 x 51.75 x 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie
Accession Number
M.2006.73.11
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
American Art
Copyright
© The Estate of Melville Price

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