Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)

Three Animals (Drei Tiere)

Date:

(1912)

Medium:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

composition (irreg.): 6 5/8 x 5 11/16" (16.9 x 14.5 cm); sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8" (29.8 x 23.1 cm)

Paper:

Beige, smooth, laid Japan.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Maria Marc

Edition:

unknown (approx. 10-15 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

Reference:

Schardt VII-1912-12. Lankheit 834.

MoMA Number:

417.1940

Themes:

Nature, Primitivism

Techniques:

Woodcut