THE COLLECTION
Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)
Horses Resting (Ruhende Pferde)
- Date:
- 1911
- Medium:
- Woodcut
- Dimensions:
- composition: 6 5/8 x 9 1/16" (16.8 x 23 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 3/4" (28.6 x 40 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, laid Japan.
- Publisher:
- Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin
- Printer:
- The artist
- Edition:
- approx. 3 impressions, printed in black; an unknown number of impressions (approx. 10-15), printed in color [this ex.]; 10 signed and numbered, printed in color, published by Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin; an unknown number, printed in black, in the periodical Der Sturm, vol. 3, no. 146/147 (February 1913); 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
- Reference:
- Schardt VII-1912-1. Lankheit 825/1. Söhn 53928-1. Rifkind 1823.
- MoMA Number:
- 416.1940
- Themes:
- Nature, Primitivism
- Techniques:
- Woodcut