Still Life with Eggplant

1954

Werner Drewes

Associated Names
Werner Drewes

Artist, American, 1899 - 1985

The image shows a still life arrangement with a large green and yellow squash, purple grapes, a green and yellow gourd, and a purple eggplant on a plate. There are two green apples in the foreground. The color palette includes green, yellow, purple, and brown tones with black outlines defining the shapes. The background has textured grey, brown, and black shades, suggesting a tabletop and wall.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.16 × 50.8 cm (11 7/8 × 20 in.)
    sheet: 52.39 × 67.31 cm (20 5/8 × 26 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.109.31

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rose 1984, no. III.159

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Butterfields, San Francisco, California); Bob Stana and Tom Judy, Washington, D.C., 2000; acquired 2019 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1984

  • Rose, Ingrid. Werner Drewes: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Munich and New York: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1984, p. 336, no. III.159.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 21/XXX; lower right in graphite: Drewes -54-

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