Head in Profile, 1923

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint on heavy-wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.8 × 14.6 cm (10 3/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

sheet: 54.2 × 37.6 cm (21 5/16 × 14 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Eckhardt 1932, no. 165, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.245

Artists / Makers

Walter Gramatté (artist) German, 1897 - 1929

Image Use

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Inscription

signed and dated below image, at right, in graphite: Walter Gramatté / 23; below image, in graphite, by later hand: Profil 42-; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: E 165 II/II

Provenance

Ernest Rathenau (no mark); (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, April 20, 1988, lot 286); (via Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

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

Bibliography

1932: Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932: no. 165, ii/ii