Head in Profile

1923

Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on heavy-wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.245

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 165, State ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

1932

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76556449


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