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AdmittedGeorges Méliès · c. 1930–31
This one's called Drawing of Scene 12: The Dream: The Belies, The Great Bear, Phoebus, The Twin Stars, Saturn of the nineteen oh two film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) — a drawing by the French artist Georges Méliès, around nineteen thirty to nineteen thirty-one. It's ink on paper, about 24 by 34 centimeters.
Medium Ink on paper · Dimensions 9 5/8 x 13 1/2" (24.3 x 34.3 cm) · Credit Transferred from the Film Library
Hanging beside it in Gallery 501: Boy in a Red Vest, Vase
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled (Western Scene), Landscape with Steer, Homestead, Building the Palace Of Cortez, Aerial Incendiary Bombs, Gladiators
More by Georges Méliès here: Drawing of Scene 15: In The Interior of The Moon. The Giant Mushroom Grotto of the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), Drawing of Scene 9: Landing Right in the Moon's Eye!!! of the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.