Signed, lower left: O.M.
Inscribed, on stretcher: ottomueller
Oil on canvas
City of Detroit Purchase
21.210
European Modern Art to 1970
Signed, lower left: O.M.
Inscribed, on stretcher: ottomueller
1921–present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Otto Mueller, Bathers, ca. 1920, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.210.