The Couple, Self-Portrait with Wife (Das Paar, Selbstporträt mit Frau)

1922

Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

Euphorion Verlag

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint, printed in blue-green, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 54.13 × 37.5 cm (21 5/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
    plate: 24.5 × 25.4 cm (9 5/8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.255

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 160

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased c. 1999; [1] gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] Based on correspondence between donor and dealer in which former proposes the present composition for purchase.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

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

Bibliography

1932

  • Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932, no. 160.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right under platemark, in graphite: Walter Gramatté / 22

Markings

stamp, verso center, in black ink: R

Wikidata ID

Q76556473

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