Metamorphose, 1947

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Medium

color lithograph printed in black, dark grey and light grey, hand-colored with light green, light red, light blue, yellow and ochre watercolor by the artist, on wove cream paper

Dimensions

image: 38 × 48 cm (14 15/16 × 18 7/8 in.)

sheet: 47.5 × 61.6 cm (18 11/16 × 24 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Spielmann 2005, no. 111b, State only

Accession Number

2012.92.163

Artists / Makers

Willi Baumeister (artist) German, 1889 - 1955

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Inscription

signed, numbered and dated in graphite, below image: 11/30 Baumeister 47; at lower left margin, in graphite, by later hand: 452

Provenance

Heinrich Neuerberg [b. 1883], Cologne (Lugt 1344a). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 1, 2006; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Maass, Jörg
Neuerburg, Heinrich

Bibliography

2005: Spielmann, Heinz. Willi Baumeister: Werkkatalog der Druckgraphik. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005: no. 111b, only