Absage, 1926

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Medium

woodcut in black on japan paper

Dimensions

block: 26.1 x 21.6 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.)

sheet: 40.8 x 30.8 cm (16 1/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2007.141.13

Artists / Makers

Gerhard Marcks (artist) German, 1889 - 1981

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Absage; lower right in graphite: Marcks 1926

Provenance

Ernst Rathenau, Berlin and New York; (his estate sale, Sotheby's London, April 20, 1988, lot 305); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2007. [1]

[1] The donor files also include a receipt for another impression of this composition purchased from E. Weyhe, Inc., New York, on November 14, 1970.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Rathenau, Ernest Dr.
Sotheby's, London