KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)

Sitzende Frau mit Umschlagtuch (Seated Woman with Shawl)

Details

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
Sitzende Frau mit Umschlagtuch (Seated Woman with Shawl)
lithograph, circa 1924, on thin cream wove paper, signed in pencil, a very good impression of this rare print, probably an unrecorded proof aside from the 14 impressions recorded by Knesebeck, the full sheet, minor traces of adhesive and a small skinned area at lower right, otherwise in good condition
Image 410 x 320 mm., Sheet 612 x 446 mm.

Provenance

Dr. Heinrich Becker (1881-1972), Bielefeld; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature

Knesebeck 211

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Lot Essay

Knesebeck records an impression on yellowish Japan paper as formerly in the Becker collection. Presumably this impression on cream wove is aside from the fourteen cited impressions, of which six are in museum collections in Boston, Rhode Island, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lübeck and the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. To our knowledge only two other impressions of this print have been offered at auction within the last thirty years.

‘So your work at the Kunsthaus in Bielefeld has come to an end. I am sorry about this, because I know how much your work has contributed and with how much love and dedication you did it. It is a great loss.’
(A letter from Käthe Kollwitz to Heinrich Becker dated 29 August 1933, following his dismissal as director of the Kunsthaus)

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