Head of a Woman | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR55.19
People: Alfred Kubin, Austrian (Leitmeritz, Bohemia, Austria 1877 - 1959 Zwickledt, near Wernstein am Inn, Austria)
Title: Head of a Woman
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1910
Culture: Austrian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223395

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

11.3 x 11.5 cm (4 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Kubin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger
Copyright: © Alfred Kubin Stiftung / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 1955
Object Number: BR55.19
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Dr. Ulrich Luckhardt, Lyonel Feininger Alfred Kubin: Eine Kunstlerfreundschaft, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz, Albertina, and Internationale Tage (Ingelheim and Wien, Germany, 2015), p. 305, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Lyonel Feininger and Alfred Kubin. A Friendship Between Artists, Internationale Tage, Ingelheim am Rhein, 05/24/2015 - 08/02/2015

Verification Level

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BR55.19: Head of a Woman