The Sun

1914

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Artist, German, 1884 - 1976

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 39.6 × 49.6 cm (15 9/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 51 × 66.9 cm (20 1/16 × 26 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.467

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schapire 1924, Vol. W, no. 152, State only

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 1, 2006; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1924

  • Schapire, Rosa. Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs graphische Werk bis 1923. Berlin: Euphorion-Verlag, 1924, no. 152, only

Inscriptions

below image, at right, in graphite: S. Rottluff; below image, at center, in graphite: 1431

Wikidata ID

Q76556985

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