Standing Boy and Two Girls (second version) (Stehender Knabe und zwei Mädchen 2 )
1917
Artist, German, 1874 - 1930
Printer

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph on gray wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 49.85 × 39.37 cm (19 5/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
image: 32.39 × 24.77 cm (12 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1950.17.333
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Catalogue Raisonné
Karsch 1974, no. 67, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Claude Schaefer [1913-2010], Montevideo, Uruguay; sold 1950 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; [1] gift 1950/1951 to the National Gallery of Art.
[1] In Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 56-57, Rosenwald described being approached by a young man in South America who offered to sell his father’s collection of prints that he had brought with him from Germany. Rosenwald gives the year as 1951, but his appointment books confirm that it was actually 1950 - he left for Buenos Aires on 9 February 1950 and returned on 20 March 1950 (Library of Congress, Rosenwald Papers, Box 75). Rosenwald writes that he bought the entire collection of some 1100 prints and drawings, but as they had already been scheduled to be sent to Europe they came to the United States via Antwerp, arriving in the US in late April 1950. Rosenwald decided to keep about a quarter of the collection, destined for the National Gallery of Art, and donate the remainder to other institutions. The inventory log of Alverthorpe indicates that just over 300 works were accessioned there in May of 1950, inventory numbers 50.260-50.530, acquired from Claude Schaefer (Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, RG 45A1, Rosenwald Papers, Box 41).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1974
Karsch, Florian. Otto Mueller zum hundertsten Geburtstag, das graphische Gesamtwerk. Exh. cat. Berlin: Galerie Nierendorf, 1974.
Inscriptions
"I" lower left plate in graphite and crayon. "Otto Mueller" lower right plate in graphite. "M.O." lower right plate in plate. "F" lower left sheet in graphite. "54" lower right sheet in graphite.
Markings
Verso, stamped in black ink: COMISION NACIONAL DE MUSEOS / Y MONUMENTOS HISTORICOS / JOSE LUIS BUSANICHE / SECRETARIO GENERALE
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q65363281