THE COLLECTION
Erich Heckel (German, 1883–1970)
On the Beach
- Date:
- (1923)
- Medium:
- Woodcut
- Dimensions:
- composition (irreg.): 16 1/8 x 10 5/16" (41 x 26.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 20 9/16 x 14 5/16" (52.2 x 36.3 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, wove "japan".
- Publisher:
- Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich
- Printer:
- Fritz Voigt, Berlin
- Edition:
- Portfolio: 300, including 80 on "japan" paper [this ex.] (plus 1 h.c. for the publisher); and 220 on Bütten paper; plus an unknown number of impressions outside the portfolio edition
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Samuel A. Berger
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Erich Heckel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
- Reference:
- Dube (H)336 III B. Söhn 335-6.
- MoMA Number:
- 354.1954
- Themes:
- Nature, Nude, Primitivism
- Techniques:
- Woodcut