Absage, 1926

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Medium

woodcut in black on thin japan paper

Dimensions

block: 26.1 x 21.4 cm (10 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.)

sheet: 34.3 x 24.6 cm (13 1/2 x 9 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Accession Number

2007.141.14

Artists / Makers

Gerhard Marcks (artist) German, 1889 - 1981

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Marck(?); by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 2; by later hand, lower left verso in red: 2 Probe

Provenance

Ernst Rathenau, Berlin and New York; (his estate sale, Sotheby's London, April 20, 1988, lot 305); (via Frederick Mulder, London); 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.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.
Rathenau, Ernest Dr.
Sotheby's, London