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Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)

Worker Woman with Sleeping Child (Arbeiterfrau mit schlafendem Jungen)

Date:
(1927)
Medium:
Lithograph
Dimensions:
composition (irreg.): 15 3/8 x 13 1/8" (39.1 x 33.4 cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 15 3/4" (55 x 40 cm)
Paper:
Cream, smooth, wove.
Publisher:
Künstler-Selbsthilfe, J. J. Ottens, Berlin
Printer:
probably Hermann Birkholz, Berlin
Edition:
100 (30 numbered on Japan paper and 70 numbered on wove paper); plus unnumbered proofs on Japan paper and wove paper [this ex.]; plus 50 (with lithographed signature) published by Alexander von der Becke, Berlin, c. 1931
Credit Line:
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Copyright:
© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Reference:
Wagner 196. Klipstein 226 b. Knesebeck 234 I c.
MoMA Number:
345.1940
Themes:
Postwar Politics
Techniques:
Lithography

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