Portrait of a Woman (Frauenkopf)

1922

Erich Heckel

Artist, German, 1883 - 1970

unidentified

Printer

Fritz Gurlitt

Publisher, German, 1854 - 1893

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 26.99 × 21.59 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 39 × 29.2 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.288

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1965, Vol. II, no. 269

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, CA); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 12, 1997; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1964

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. Erich Heckel; das graphische Werke. 2 vols. New York: Ernest Rathenau, 1964, 1965.

Inscriptions

recto: Erich Heckel [lower right below image, signed, in graphite]/.

Wikidata ID

Q76339001

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