Spieler (Stevenson) [Gambler (Stevenson)]

c. 1926

Paul Gangolf

Associated Names
Paul Gangolf

Artist, German, German, 1879 - 1936

The image features intersecting lines and distorted shapes forming an abstract scene in a confined space. The lines converge to create figures resembling people with exaggerated features. One figure leans over a table with scattered items that resemble playing cards. The figures have elongated limbs and angular forms that merge with swirling patterns around them.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.8 × 14.8 cm (3 7/8 × 5 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 31.4 × 29.8 cm (12 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.214

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rathenau 1964, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 26, 2007; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1964

  • Rathenau, Ernest. Im Memoriam Paul Gangolf. Berlin: Euphorin Verlag, 1964, undescribed.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: SPIELER; lower center in plate: STEVENSON; signed by artist, lower right under platemark, in graphite: Gangolf; by later hand, verso lower margin, in graphite: Die Spieler (Stevenson) G- 246/300-21324; by later hand, verso lower left, in blue pen and ink: 25 [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q76556371

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