Object number2004.14

Tod packt eine Frau (plate 4 from the portfolio “Tod”)

Date1934

Artist Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945)

Published by Alexander von der Becke (German)

CultureGerman

MediumLithograph in black ink on cream wove paper

Edition12/100

DimensionsSheet: 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (59.06 x 46.36 cm)

Credit LineGift of Charlotte I. Hall, class of 1954, in honor of her fiftieth class reunion

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedSigned (BR, in margin, in pencil): kathe Kollwitz

InscribedInscribed (BL, in margin, in pencil): 12/100; (at center, bottom edge, in pencil - not the artist's hand): Death Taking Child from Mother Notes: Written in later hand on orginial backing board: [after a drawing of 1923-24 from "Abshied & Tod"/Drawing illus. in Klein "Kathe Kollwitz" Holt, Reinhardt, & winston 1972] Label on verso of original backing board (see file)

CopyrightARS/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Catalogue raisonnéKlipstein 259BibliographyK 259 b Klipstein 259Provenanceérom Nielson Gallery, 179 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116 617-266-4835

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