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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.302
People
Lovis Corinth, German (Tapiau, East Prussia [now Gvardeysk, Russia] 1858 - 1925 Zandvoort, The Netherlands)
Title
Self-Portrait
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Kleines Selbstporträt
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1924
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303670

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 x 47 cm (20 1/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
framed: 74 x 71 cm (29 1/8 x 27 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in oil at u.l.: Lovis Corinth 1924

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Arthur Rosin, Berlin, 1926, bequest; to Axel Rosin, New York, 1958. [Galerie St. Etienne, New York], 1992, sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1992.

Footnotes: Axel Rosin is the son of Arthur Rosin.
The object file also names "Ksthdlg. Resch, Gauting" in the provenance, after Axel Rosin.
Purchased with funds donated to Busch-Reisinger Museum by Paule Cadville-Teves specifically for that purpose, thus considered a gift.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift in memory of Ernst A. Teves, Harvard College, Class of 1936, for his courage demonstrated during the years of Nazi dictatorship in Germany
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.302
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 342-343, repr. color
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 146
  • Jane Kallir, The Expressionist Legacy: The Third in a Series of Exhibitions Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Galerie St. Etienne, exh. cat., Galerie St. Etienne (New York, 2019), checklist no. 5

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • The Expressionist Legacy, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 10/22/2019 - 02/29/2020

Verification Level

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