Head and Hands of a Working Man, 1921

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Medium

charcoal on gray paper

Dimensions

overall: 50.2 x 65 cm (19 3/4 x 25 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagel 1972, no. 915

Accession Number

1943.3.5215

Artists / Makers

Käthe Kollwitz (artist) German, 1867 - 1945

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; upper left verso upside down: Arbeitsloser / [Holzs...]; unknown hand lower right verso in graphite: ... Arbeitsloser ...

Provenance

(Robert Carlen, Philadelphia); sold 25 February 1943 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Carlen, Robert
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1959: Bittner, Herbert. Kaethe Kollwitz Drawings. New York, 1959: 76.

1972: Nagel, Otto. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. New York: Galerie St. Etienne; Crown Publishers, 1972.