THE COLLECTION
Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916)
Steer (Stier)
- Date:
- (1912)
- Medium:
- Woodcut
- Dimensions:
- composition (irreg. ): 6 5/16 x 8 3/4" (16 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 9 1/8 x 11 9/16" (23.2 x 29.4 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, laid Japan; mounted on cream, smooth, wove paper
- Publisher:
- Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin
- 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 10 signed and numbered, published by Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin; and an unknown number in the periodical Der Sturm, vol. 3, no. 140/141 (December 1912); 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-1912-5. Lankheit 827/1. Söhn 53925-1. Rifkind 1828.
- MoMA Number:
- 30.1952
- Themes:
- Nature, Primitivism
- Techniques:
- Woodcut