Dancer

1954

Willi Baumeister

Associated Names
Willi Baumeister

Artist, German, 1889 - 1955

The image shows irregular black shapes on a textured yellow background. The largest shape on the left resembles a mythical creature or a distorted continent, with smaller round forms nearby resembling droplets or tiny islands. The background is a mix of earthy yellow and gray tones, creating a textured appearance. The use of contrasting black shapes against the backdrop creates depth in this abstract artwork.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color screenprint in light-green, olive-green, grey and black on wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 38.9 × 26 cm (15 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 53.5 × 38.3 cm (21 1/16 × 15 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.160

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Spielmann 2005, no. 198, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 1, 2007; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

2005

  • Spielmann, Heinz. Willi Baumeister: Werkkatalog der Druckgraphik. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005: no. 198, only

Inscriptions

signed in image, at lower right, in graphite: Baumer; numbered below image, at left, in graphite: 8/32; at bottom left corner, in graphite, by later hand: Tänzerin II

Wikidata ID

Q76556247

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