Still Life with Spring

1975

Friedrich Meckseper

Associated Names
Friedrich Meckseper

Artist, German, German, 1936 - 2019

Fitch-Febvrel Gallery, Ltd.

Publisher

The image shows a large capital letter "A," a semi-circular protractor, a coiled spring-like object, and a small red sphere. The color palette includes browns, tan, cream, and red. The arrangement includes the "A" on the left, the protractor behind it, the vertical spring in the center, and the red sphere at the base. In the background, a pole with alternating brown and white stripes is faintly visible.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching, aquatint and roulette on wove white paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.2 × 36.1 cm (10 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 45.1 × 57 cm (17 3/4 × 22 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.366

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schmucking 1975, no. 168, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 31, 1975; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1975

  • Schmücking, Rolf. Meckseper: Werkverzeichnis der Radierungen, 1956-1975. Braunschweig: Galerie Schmücking, 1975: no. 168, only

Inscriptions

signed, dated and numbered below image, in graphite: 56/100 Meckseper 75

Wikidata ID

Q76556740

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