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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.279
People
Gerhard Marcks, German (Berlin, Germany 1889 - 1981 Burgbrohl, Germany)
Title
Standing Female Figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299702

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
42.2 x 29.4 cm (16 5/8 x 11 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: G Marcks

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1956, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen, Germany / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.279
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 163, p. 377

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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