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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR50.451
People
Franz Marc, German (Munich, Germany 1880 - 1916 Verdun, France)
Title
Playing Dogs
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Spielende Hunde
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1912
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304415

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache on tan cardboard
Dimensions
sheet: 38.1 x 54.6 cm (15 x 21 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, l.c., graphite, German: Kat. Nr. 1912/12
    Spielende Hunde
  • stamp: verso, l.r., purple/black ink; signed in graphite, German, signed: Nachlass FRANZ MARC bestätigt: Maria Marc
  • inscription: verso, l., graphite: gouache
  • inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: Frau Marc
  • stamp: verso, u.r., black ink: Riems [German customs stamp]
  • label: verso, frame, French: Figures du Moderne: L'Expr. en Allemagne 1905-1914 / 19 Nov. 92 - 14 March 93

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Lankheit 456

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Edmée Busch Greenough Fund
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
BR50.451
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 39, repr.
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 46, fig. 33, ill. (color)
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 63, ill.
  • 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. 165

Exhibition History

  • 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982
  • Franz Marc and the Blue Rider, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 04/08/2001 - 07/15/2001
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024

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