Qual (Torment)

1920/1921

Walter Gramatté

Artist, German, 1897 - 1929

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black, yellow, red, and gray-green on blotting paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 38 x 49.1 cm (14 15/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.8 x 63.5 cm (18 7/16 x 25 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.80.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Eckhardt 1932, no. 81

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Carus Gallery, New York); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased March, 1983; gift to NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

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

Bibliography

1932

  • Eckhardt, Ferdinand. Das graphische Werk von Walter Gramatte. Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1932.

1985

  • NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 63, repro. p.87.

Inscriptions

in border of image, lower left in graphite: Qual; in border of image, lower right in graphite: Walter Gramatte' / 20/21; by later hands, across bottom in graphite: Grama tte "Qual" "Qual"

Wikidata ID

Q74884294

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