Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
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Venus de Milo and Island of Melos
Catalogue no. 1079
1952–59
Paris, France
Pencil on paper
7 3/4 x 5 in. (19.7 x 12.7 cm)
Inscribed top left: "Salle de / Venus de Milos / 1952 / again"
Inscribed below: "street"
Numbered, signed lower right: "152 / E W Dickinson"
Inscribed along right: "1st position Could be Samothrace"
Inscribed mid right: "Sight of Milos / 3 Aug. 59 / A HAPPY / Conjunction"
Inscribed on right: "rue Drevet / 18e" [18th arrondissement]
Inscribed below: "street"
Numbered, signed lower right: "152 / E W Dickinson"
Inscribed along right: "1st position Could be Samothrace"
Inscribed mid right: "Sight of Milos / 3 Aug. 59 / A HAPPY / Conjunction"
Inscribed on right: "rue Drevet / 18e" [18th arrondissement]
Notes
Drawn in Paris, France in the Louvre, July 27, 1952 (journal). To FD, July 29, "I have a little drawing
of the high back of the Melos." The back of the shoulders and head of Venus is at top. Below are steps of
the rue DrÈvet, Paris, drawn July, 1952.
Drawn on board the Tekla Torm, July, 1959. Just above inscription "Sight of Melos" is a stretch of Aegean sea beyond which was island of Melos. Later in 1959 ED drew along the right side the silhouette of the island of Samothrace.
Provenance
Estate
Exhibition History
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Venus de Milo and Island of Melos, 1952–59 (Catalogue no. 1079)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1079 (accessed on July 20, 2026).