Ludwig Meidner O Moon Above So Clear! 1912
- Medium
- Ink, charcoal and opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 17 3/4 x 22 1/4" (45.1 x 56.5 cm)
- Credit
- The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
- Object number
- 132.1978
- Copyright
- © Ludwig-Meidner-Archiv, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Ludwig Meidner has 14 works online.
- There are 18,029 drawings online.
This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
The artist; Galleria del Levante, Milan [1]; acquired by Joan and Lester Avnet, New York, 1967 [2]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection), 1978.
[1] Collection files, Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Included in the exhibition "Disegni Di Ludwig Meidner," Galleria del Levante, Milan, October 1965 (no. 3: Alta, tu, più limpida luna).
[2] Ibid. Included in the circulating exhibition "Figures and Faces: 19th and 20th Century European Master Drawings from the Lester and Joan Avnet Collection" organized by the American Federation of Arts (no. 27: Oh Moon Above So Clear). On extended loan to The Museum of Modern Art, New York since 1970.
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