Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)

Lizards (Eidechsen)

Date:

(1912)

Medium:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

composition: 3 3/8 x 3 3/8" (8.6 x 8.6 cm); sheet: 7 5/16 x 5 9/16" (18.6 x 14.2 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, laid Japan.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Maria Marc

Edition:

unknown (approx. 10-15 impressions printed by the artist and an unknown number of posthumous impressions printed by Maria Marc [this ex.]); plus a posthumous edition of 30 issued by Otto Stangl, Munich, and printed by Gerhard Köhler, Baden-Baden, in 1984

Credit Line:

Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (by exchange)

Reference:

Schardt VII-1912-9. Lankheit 835.

MoMA Number:

414.1940

Themes:

Nature, Primitivism

Techniques:

Woodcut