Woman with a Necklace

1923

Walter Gramatté

Associated Names
Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

The image shows the upper half of a person's body, from the head down to the waist. The person is upright and facing the viewer directly. The facial features are stylized, with exaggerated brows and intricate patterns on the forehead and eyes. The hair is long and flowing around the face. The person is wearing a top with visible buttons, along with a necklace made of small circular beads and larger flower-like shapes. The background has a textured pattern.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching printed in blue on wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.4 × 22.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 44.7 × 33 cm (17 5/8 × 13 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.246

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 176, State only

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. 176, only

Inscriptions

signed and dated below image, at right, in graphite: Walter Gramatté 23; numbered at left, in graphite, by later hand: I/X; on verso, in graphite, by later hand: E 176

Wikidata ID

Q76556452

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