Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)

Tigers (Tiger)

Date:

(1912)

Medium:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 x 9 1/2" (20 x 24.1 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 1/8" (28.6 x 35.8 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, laid Japan.

Publisher:

Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin

Printer:

The artist

Edition:

unknown (approx. 10-15) [this ex.]; 10 signed and numbered, published by Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin; plus an unknown number, printed in black, in the periodical Der Sturm, vol. 3, no. 132 (October 1912); and 135 (including 25 printed by Heinrich Campendonk on Japan paper, 100 printed by Tiegelpresse on "Bütten" paper, and 10 hors-commerce) posthumously published by Roland Verlag, Munich, 1919, in the deluxe edition of the illustrated book Buch der Toten; plus a posthumous edition of 30 issued by Otto Stangl, Munich, and printed by Gerhard Köhler, Baden-Baden, in 1984

Credit Line:

Purchase

Reference:

Schardt VII-1912-2. Lankheit 833/1. Söhn 53920-2. Söhn 507-1. Rifkind 1830.

MoMA Number:

348.1951

Themes:

Nature, Primitivism

Techniques:

Woodcut