Still Life with Skull | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2019.280
People: Walter Gramatté, German (Berlin, Germany 1897 - 1929 Hamburg, Germany)
Title: Still Life with Skull
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Stillleben mit Totenkopf
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1924
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/365290

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper

Technique

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions

image: 27.2 × 18.8 cm (10 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 54.3 × 39.1 cm (21 3/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., in graphite: Walter Gramatté 24

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: The Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2019.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Eckhardt 195

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation, Winnipeg Canada
Accession Year: 2019
Object Number: 2019.280
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Mit der Unerbittlichkeit der Jugend Walter Gramatté 1897-1929, exh. cat., Galerie Remmert und Barth (Düsseldorf, 2005), p. 94, fig. 45, ill (b/w)

Verification Level

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2019.280: Still Life with Skull