Head of a Girl

1924

Max Kaus

Artist, German, 1891 - 1977

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black and aquatint in brown on cream wove paper, attached to a support sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32.9 × 27.7 cm (12 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 44.1 × 34.6 cm (17 3/8 × 13 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.306

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Krause 2016, no. R 1922/1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Heinrich Ehmsen, Berlin. (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 15, 2005; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2016

  • Krause, Markus. Max Kaus: Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik. Munich: Hirmer, 2016, no. R 1922/1.

Inscriptions

below image, at left, in graphite: MKaus 1924 / Für Heinr. Ehmsen / herzl. / V. M. u. B Kaus; below image, at right, in graphite, by later hand: KH

Wikidata ID

Q76556583

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