Metamorphose

1947

Willi Baumeister

Artist, German, 1889 - 1955

Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.163

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Spielmann 2005, no. 111b, State only

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Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

2005

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76556255

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